The Last Tinker™: City of Colors
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 6.4h
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, SM 3.0 with 512MB VRAM; NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT / AMD Radeon HD 4650 or greater, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The Last Tinker is a joyous action adventure and definitely no platformer, as there is no jump button. Koru, a boy from the slums of Colortown, must rise and stand against the Bleakness, a dark force intent on wiping out joy. Koru must use color and emotion to restore life to Colortown!
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
The value story
December 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 112 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 90 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, TY the Tasmanian Tiger ($14.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Yooka-Laylee ($19.99, scores 40).
72 from critics against 81 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 150 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
8% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 6.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 06:09 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's an undeniably vibrant and charming 3D platformer with a neat concept centered around restoring hues to a segregated world. However, the entirely automated platforming and overly simplistic combat make it feel more like an interactive cartoon than an engaging game. Great for younger players, but a bit too shallow for seasoned platformer fans.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Last Tinker™: City of Colors scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/260160/the-last-tinker-city-of-colorsReviews 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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