Primordia
Worth it · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.85.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $1.64/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 5 or above compatibility, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
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
The value story
October 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 64 in the 14 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $7.85, a level the record has reached 64 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day ($9.99, scores 38) and Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive ($14.99, scores 74) both come in lower.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 351 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 144 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
At 6.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
63% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 6.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 00:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I really enjoyed the athmospehere and story of this game. If you have 10 hours and like world building and interactive stories with puzzles, highly recommend.
Primordia is a brilliant throw back to the original point and click adventure games of the 00s. Great story, multiple endings, at times, incredibly difficult puzzles, good voice acting and loads of frustrating moments, as is the way of the era of classic 00s point and click. The sound track is excellent and the SFX helps immerse you in the world. It asks some interesting philosophical questions. Perfect on the...
Primordia is slightly different from the other Wadjet Eye games such as Shardlight and Strangeland. In the sense that it is older, slightly more clunky in controls and frustrating to bang your head against the wall over and over to solve certain puzzles. (Atleast my experience on my first playthrough). However it fully retains the Charm and the Unique Style of The Wadget Eye games. Its remarkeable visual Style, its...
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Cite this score
Primordia scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/227000/primordiaReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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