Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Worth it · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9990% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.37/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 7,621
- Critics
- 78 players 14 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 14.6h
- To 100%
- 19h 1.3x the story
- Finish
- 14% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 41
Price and sales
- Sales
- 94 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 April 2022
- Sale every
- 32d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 11 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
33% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 94 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $13.28, a level the record has reached 83 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pentiment ($19.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Little Misfortune ($19.99, scores 59).
More about Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Critics scored it 78. Players sit 14 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 14.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 665 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 429 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 12 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I've never been a big fan of Point & Click games, so I didn't have particularly high expectations when I started The Pillars of the Earth. To my surprise, it didn't take long for the game to draw me in. The visual style was probably the first thing that caught my attention. It feels like a medieval illustration brought to life, with its villages, monasteries, old buildings and quiet landscapes. The Middle Ages don't...
2 more reviews
*Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth* was one of the most absorbing and emotionally affecting adventure games I've played. I came to it with fairly low expectations. My previous experiences with Daedalic had been mixed: some of their games felt visually appealing but emotionally shallow, others too childish or irritating for my taste. *The Pillars of the Earth* felt completely different. Set in 12th-century...
This is not so much a game about building a cathedral as it is a story about the people whose lives gradually become intertwined around it. At first, you simply follow individual characters and their problems, but over time their stories begin to cross paths, and everything starts to come together into one bigger picture. Don't expect difficult puzzles or a huge amount of freedom in your choices. The real focus here...
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About the game
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 6670, GeForce GTX 200 series with at least 1GB, 13.2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/234270/ken-follett-s-the-pillars-of-the-earthReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.