Transistor
Worth it · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.33/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 31,311
- Critics
- 83 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% RPG
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6h
- To 100%
- 15.7h 2.6x the story
- Finish
- 25% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 33
Price and sales
- Sales
- 74 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 June 2017
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6 now
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
81% start to 25% 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
The value story
The value story
74 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $9.45, a level the record has reached 71 times.
Its score puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bastion ($14.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition ($19.99, scores 67).
More about Transistor
83 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 25 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 2,668 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6 hours; clearing it takes 16, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 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
one of my top 5 games ever. the story, music, aethetics, and gameplay still hole up over 10 years later
2 more reviews
This might be my favorite game ever. played it years and years ago and decided to replay it recently. Sufficient to say art directive is nothing short of 11/10, an audiovisual masterpiece. amazing story and gameplay. Makes me wish i could erase my memory to replay.
Nice game and visual style! I enjoyed the concept of combining your powers to create new effects! The ending is also amazing on this one! its a short game! On the negative side of things the cutscenes are not skip-able so the 2nd playthrough or if you want to replay it more than that is kind-of annoying.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Discover the world of Transistor, a sci-fi-themed action RPG from the creators of Bastion.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB of VRAM: Intel HD 3000 GPU / AMD HD 5450 / Nvidia 9400 GT, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Transistor scores 72/100 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/237930/transistorReviews 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 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.