Halfway
Skip · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $2.59.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.14/hr
- Reviews▼
- 72% of 1,020
- Genre rank
- Top 44% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 17.9h
- To 100%
- 19.9h 1.1x the story
- Finish
- 7% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 73 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $2.59 June 2020
- Sale every
- 42d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 31% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 39% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
89% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 73 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.59 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Its score puts it in the top 44 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos ($34.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Blackguards ($9.99, scores 18).
More about Halfway
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 17.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 386 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 128 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
If you like Turn Based Strategy and 100% completion, then this game is for you. The story is enjoyable, the characters are memorable and the grinding is almost non existent. It took me close to 20 hours to finish Halfway and it was satisfying. Unless if you're looking for 100% achievements, then probably add 30 more minutes to the total playtime, which is, not bad at all.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Although this game isn't as polished as their sequel Pathway, I still love it! :D There's something about this system of flat 2D strategy games I just love and this one delivers :) Looking forward to more Robotality/ChuckleFish games in the future! Fantastic work :D
It wasn't great in 2014 and it hasn't gotten better with age. Much like Starbound, there's not much meat to the game - you're fighting the same three fights over and over and over again barely strung together with a few sentences of dialogue between each mission. Add in terrible accuracy curves, clunky inventory management, and no experience gain - then you really have no reward for grinding through the story to...
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About the game
Halfway is a turn-based strategy RPG taking place a few hundred years into the future. Humanity has started colonising new worlds. Until now, they were alone ...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD3000 or higher with OpenGL 2.1 support, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Halfway scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/253150/halfwayReviews 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.