The Last of Us™ Part I
Skip · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $59.99.
- Length
- 14.3h
- Value
- $4.20/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 95% over the last 30 days against 84% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, 100 GB of storage. Windows only.
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
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The value story
December 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $29.99. It has been discounted 23 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 41 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Days Gone ($39.99, scores 85) and The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered ($49.99, scores 68) both outscore it.
Players rate it 84 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 95 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 6,669 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
3 years after release it still had 4.1K people in it at once.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 14.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
75% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4,144 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Undoubtedly one of the best story telling in video games ever. I originally played tlou part 1 and 2 on my ps5 back in March and absolutely fell in love with the game and its rich story. I found it hard for me to put down this game when I started because it keep you not only entertained, but also invested in the emotional drive of this story. The dynamic of both Joel and Ellie is just so beautiful and a breath of...
An incredible game that I've played countless times-back when Naughty Dog was creating this perfect game and Capcom was making Resident Evil 6, lol. Those were the days, guys. Things have changed nowadays, right? But anyway, TLOU1 is one of the best horror games out there, with great gameplay, an incredible story, and modern graphics. Anyone who didn't play it back then can give it a try today.
This game is honestly one of the best story games I ever played, the story itself is amazing and part 2 is just as good as the first one gonna get the platinum for part 2 next.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Last of Us™ Part I scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1888930/the-last-of-us-part-iThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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