Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink
Fair · Narrative · 2014
The verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.84/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 1,162
- Genre rank
- Top 13% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.1h
- To 100%
- 4.2h 1.4x the story
- Achievements
- 19
Price and sales
- Sales
- 99 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 September 2015
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
61% start to 16% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 99 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala ($14.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden ($14.99, scores 58).
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
Even for a discounted price, it was not worth it, due to being very short and really not very engaging. It followed the usual format for a HOG (walk between scenes, pick stuff up, do a hidden object scene now and again). Nothing about it was particularly fun. The only reason I may play it again in a couple of years is because it has Spanish translation for the text. (I'm playing in Spanish to help me learn it.)
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Hmm... I could've sworn I played a game similar to this one... It also had the same themes, same mechanical black crawly thingy and that grandpa (maybe...)... But unlike this game... That one was FAR BETTER. This game is not only short and easy... It's... The Agent doesn't do any spy stuff. If it were "this is a lucky human, rescuing her grandpapi..." It probably would've made more sense. More sense, but still...
The game works, is very stylish, I love how the machines look, and the puzzles are quite good, after you remember to hover your mouse over everything, even in rooms you thought you were done with. I really wish the game had provided more detail, not in the "how do the machines work" way, but more in the "here's some backstory on this country's wars and how the day-to-day life of the people works", because the amount...
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About the game
Unburied secrets burn like wild steam – nothing is what it appears!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/284830/clockwork-tales-of-glass-and-inkReviews 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.