Tinkerlands
Fair · RPG · 2025 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 16h
- Value
- $0.81/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 25% ($9.74)
- Last discount ended
- 36 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 970 or equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
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
It has never been cheaper than $9.09. That was August 2026. 12 discounts in the 17 months on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Feel The Snow ($12.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Creativerse ($24.99, scores 49).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 251 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 16 hours. Doing everything runs 36, 2.3 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
82% start to 4% rarestNo 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
Players
46 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 21:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
"Another Terraria/Core Keeper/Necesse clone" - good. More of those, please. That comparison gets thrown around like it's an insult. It isn't. Those games are some of the most enjoyable things in the genre, and Tinkerlands sits comfortably alongside them. I've also seen comments claiming exploration isn't rewarded here, and I don't recognise that. I can't help but fully clear a map, and Tinkerlands gives me a dozen...
It scratches the Terraria itch. I cant wait for the full release, as its so much fun already.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Tinkerlands scores 66/100 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/2617700/tinkerlandsReviews 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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