Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition
Fair · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.3h
- Value
- $4.34/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 compatible, 799 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Also known as Out Of This World™, Another World is a pioneer action/platformer that released across more than a dozen platforms since its debut in 1991. Along the years, Another World™ has attained cult status among critics and sophisticated gamers alike.
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
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in April 2017. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 72 in the 13 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, La-Mulana ($14.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats The Way ($14.99, scores 48).
Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 385 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 777 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 47 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
72% start to 22% 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
What players say
Uumm… I know it's a classic, and I'm totally into retro stuff, BUT I guess I just don't have the patience anymore to struggle through those hardcore, frustrating trial-and-error puzzles. The controls are really old-school-in a bad way-there's no story beyond "Escape from the alien planet," and without a guide, you'd probably only figure out some solutions with endless patience and just as many retries. And unlike...
I understand the game was released in 1991, I still think this game is not my cup of tea. Some sections are very frustrating with the lack of directions. You end up doing the same actions over and over but then you die and start over from the last checkpoint because the story isn't supposed to progress that way. If those actions were consistent or at least fun, it wouldn't be as frustrating. Those sections for me...
This is a game that I can't even bring myself to finish playing. I played around two-thirds of the game, up until after I flooded the caves, before I decided that it definitely wasn't worth it. The art is crisp and clear, but that is about the only good thing about the game. I was first attracted to the game because of the hostile alien world setting, but the world turned out to be bizarre and boring. Really, the...
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Cite this score
Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/233550/another-world-20th-anniversary-editionReviews 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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