The Entropy Centre

The Entropy Centre

Worth it · Shooter · 2022

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $4.99, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 70%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.

Length
8.8h
Value
$0.57/hr
Reviews
89% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
−75%80 is the sale score. Normallyat full price.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 75% off today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Typical seasonal cut
70% ($5.99)
Deepest seasonal cut
80% ($3.99)

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
8.8h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
11.3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.57
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$4.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
89%
4,467 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
750K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 | AMD Radeon HD 6870, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.

Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$0.57/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $2.27/hr
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement31% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
For context
Length8.8 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 659 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in February 2026. 35 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $4.99 at 75 percent off still sits 25 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.

At full price it scores 63. The current cut is what makes it a 80.

On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Portal ($9.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Suicide Guy ($5.99, scores 74).

Steam's global achievement data puts 31 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 6 of the 659 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 243 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

87% start to 31% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 05:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

It's not just a cheap portal ripoff; it was really fun to begin and actually has some depth to it, and I enjoy all the puzzles. Voice acting is also pretty good its not terrible puzzles are really fun to solve and doesnt get to hard before refreshing with new stuff
GameTasteTesterRecommendedafter 10h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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The Entropy Centre scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1730590/the-entropy-centre
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperStubby Games
PublisherPlaystack
GenreShooter
Released2022
Achievements27