TerraScape

TerraScape

Worth it · Multiplayer · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $14.99.

Length
5.2h
Value
$2.88/hr
Reviews
89% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely between Oct 6 and Oct 19, at about $7.49 (50% off). Calls like this were right 80% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 49 days apart.

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
40% ($8.99)
Deepest seasonal cut
50% ($7.49)
Last discount ended
20 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
5.2h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
36.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.88
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
89%
2,250 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 1060 (dedicated graphics card), 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$2.88/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length5.2 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds15 of 539 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. 33 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grocery Store Simulator ($7.49, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Liar's Bar ($4.19, scores 63).

Of the 539 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 363 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 5.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 37, 7.0 times as much.

The drop-off

91% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players

13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 05:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

This is a really fun little puzzle/town builder. Simple, easy to learn and fun. The art style is bright and delightful. Though a larger map can cause the game to become a bit drawn out and repetitive, the scenarios are fun, brief and let you explore the various elements of the game. A few more building combinations would be great but what is here now can, when the cards finally fall for you, cause great groans of...
jademonkeyRecommendedafter 23h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This is actually a very interesting evolution on relaxing city-builders. There's a strange balance between the simplicity of the game mechanic and the complexity of various possibilities. The core mechanic is similar to hexagonal tile settlers, like Dorfromantic, where you get randomized cards and play the cards to add structures to various available tiles. But Terrascape goes even further, both in terms of giving...
ChandalikaRecommendedafter 1.9hSep 2026Read on Steam
Amazingly relaxing, satisfying, and visually pleasing. For anyone that just want to unwind in the more simpler creative modes or challenge yourself with the puzzle maps, there is something for both camps.
AkelaRecommendedafter 73hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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TerraScape scores 69/100 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/2290000/terrascape
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBitfall Studios
PublisherStray Fawn Publishing
GenreMultiplayer
Released2024
Achievements84