Talisman: Digital Classic Edition
Fair · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.8h
- Value
- $1.46/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1024x600 resolution, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The complete 4th Edition experience of the classic fantasy adventure board game, Talisman. On your travels, you will need strength, courage and some good dice rolls to survive the dangers you face and beat your opponents to the centre of the board!
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.39, set in May 2020. 52 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 69 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Card Hunter (free, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Chaos Reborn ($9.99, scores 32).
Steam's global achievement data says under 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 4.8-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 352 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (unlock); the score docks it lightly for that.
The drop-off
39% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 4.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
102 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The game is nice up to the point where you get to the crown and then just roll for 1 hour with no interaction. It just becomes horribly boring and tideous.
Cool game if you have severe humiliation kink. Suggested auditory: pretty much no one. Suggested age: 100+ (easier to play when you cannot remember that you lost your previous 5 turns).
A faithful digital board game adaptation where you roll dice, draw cards, and race friends to the Crown of Command. It relies heavily on RNG, meaning your best plans will constantly fail on a bad roll, but that chaotic luck makes it a blast for casual multiplayer sessions.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Talisman: Digital Classic Edition scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/247000/talisman-digital-classic-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 16, price as of Sep 24.
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