Thomas Was Alone
Worth it · Short indie · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9950% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.85/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 9,396
- Critics
- 77 players 17 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Short indie
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.5h
- To 100%
- 4.2h 1.2x the story
- Finish
- 32% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 35
Price and sales
- Sales
- 88 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 June 2022
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 11% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
94% start to 32% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 88 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $4.68, a level the record has reached 25 times.
Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SANABI ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Golf Club Nostalgia ($9.99, scores 45).
More about Thomas Was Alone
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 32 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. None of the 414 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 586 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.99 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
nice lol used to play this as a demo all the time on ps3, and the full game here is fun, and story is very nice, I only found out those pickups at the very end of the game, I just thought they were decoration at first lolol
1 more review
First played 10 years ago, never finished, now I have and I don't think I will ever be the same
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Guide a group of rectangles through 120 levels, using their different skills together to overcome a series of obstacles in each environment. Discover the human-made story of the first sentient artificial intelligences with Danny Wallace’s BAFTA-winning narration.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Thomas Was Alone scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/220780/thomas-was-aloneReviews 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 Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.