Tintin Reporter - Cigars of the Pharaoh
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 4, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 9.8h 10.7h to 100%
- Value
- $4.08/hr
- Reviews
- 59% of 357 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Tintin and his faithful companion Snowy are going to experience some extraordinary adventures…After meeting Professor Sarcophagus whilst cruising the Mediterranean Sea, the famous reporter sets out in search of the tomb of the Pharaoh Kih-Oskh.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 5600, 34 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 26 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. On the same math Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo ($19.99, scores 49) and Backrooms Rec. ($4.19, scores 22) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Tintin Reporter - Cigars of the Pharaoh
10 of the 289 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 132 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 10 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review.
The drop-off
83% start to 3% 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
What players say
Tintin Reporter - Cigars of the Pharaoh, developed by Pendulo Studios and published by Microids, is a modern action-adventure adaptation of Hergé's classic comic album. The game reimagines one of Tintin's most iconic stories in full 3D, placing players in control of the young investigative reporter and his loyal dog Snowy as they unravel an international conspiracy tied to mysterious cigars, ancient tombs, and a...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
did not face any glitches as of yet. Almost finished the game and whoever is a tintin fan this game is defenitely worth playing now
Starting off, I love tintin and when i heard about this game before release i was so excited. then it released and i heard alot of negative reviews due to bugs. so I held off buying it, hoping the monopoly holders at moulinsart would force a fix and better support. it did get patched, kinda. theres quite a few irritating puzzles and controls. it plays like a WII game, poorly translated to mouse and keyboard. the...
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Cite this score
Tintin Reporter - Cigars of the Pharaoh scores 4/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2125090/tintin-reporter-cigars-of-the-pharaohReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.