Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
Skip · Action · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$14.99Skip
On its price record
$6.14Fair
- Length
- 7.7h 23.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.95/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 1,924 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.14 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a blistering hardcore platformer with contrasting worlds.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, SM3.0 DX9.0c level hardware (Nvidia GeForce 6800, ATI X1800 XT or higher), 3.3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 108 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 25 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Kero Blaster ($9.99, scores 74) and Blazing Chrome ($16.99, scores 55) both outscore it.
More about Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
2 of the 204 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 283 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.7 hours. Doing everything runs 23, 3.0 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
75% start to <1% 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
Started playing this game for 2 hours straight and than never thought about it again. "but that's all Steam games!" it's not for me man. I would have atleast thought about something positive to say here. It's a game that exist. It's like the return of Bionic Commando for Xbox Live. Crickets.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
When I beat the last boss on this came, once I got to the credits, the screen went black. Since the game didn't automatically return to the title screen, I tried pressing buttons to try to advance, but the screen remained black, the credit music continued playing, and I could hear that pressing the buttons was registering. After waiting a long time, I had to force-close the game. Even though I unlocked the...
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a modern revival of a classic platforming franchise, developed by Black Forest Games and published by HandyGames alongside the developer itself. Released in 2012, the game was designed to reintroduce the Giana Sisters series to a new generation while honoring the legacy of the original titles from the late 1980s. Rather than simply recreating the formula of earlier platformers, the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams scores 41/100 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/223220/giana-sisters-twisted-dreamsReviews 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 3, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.