Thomas Was Alone
Worth it · Short indie · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.68.
- Length
- 3.5h
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2022. It has been discounted 87 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 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 6 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $4.68, a level the record has reached 25 times.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 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 Mind Over Magnet ($9.99, scores 63).
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 8. None of the 413 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 585 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
94% start to 32% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
2 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
First played 10 years ago, never finished, now I have and I don't think I will ever be the same
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
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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Thomas Was Alone scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/220780/thomas-was-aloneThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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