The Inner World

The Inner World

Fair · Narrative · 2013

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
6.5h
Value
$2.31/hr
Reviews
89% positive
It needs 44% off ($8.40) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
6.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
7.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.31
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
89%
1,525 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
72
critic score
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2013

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1.4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The Inner World – A 2D-Point’n’Click Adventure Together with the help of the mysterious thief Laura, his best intentions and no clue whatsoever, Robert sets off on his adventure to discover the secret of the wind's disappearance. Will the young adventurer be able to save his world?
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
Value$2.31/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length6.5 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 391 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 $1.04. It has been discounted 110 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Thimbleweed Park™ ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Truberbrook / Trüberbrook ($29.99, scores 24).

The press gave it 72; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Of the 391 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

35% start to 7% 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

What players say

I think there are some problems inside the game. While trying to use the flute with the wind tunnel lantern, I had a circle with a diagonal show up. Things don't always activate on the first try.
cwhittington2355Not recommendedafter 9.9hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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The Inner World scores 59/100 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/251430/the-inner-world
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Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+17
Critics
72
Players
89
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 1,525 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperStudio Fizbin
PublisherHeadup
GenreNarrative
Released2013
Achievements23