Maliki : Poison Of The Past
Worth it · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Length
- 19.4h
- Value
- $1.55/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 760, Radeon R9 280, or above, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Join Maliki and her wacky family in their epic battle against Poison, a fearsome plant creature that has colonized space-time. Go along on a fantastic odyssey through the ages that provides a unique mix of exploration, temporal riddles and turn-based fights full of surprises.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in April 2026. 13 discounts in the 17 months on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tactical Breach Wizards ($19.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Marvel's Midnight Suns ($59.99, scores 48).
Critics scored it 75. Players sit 21 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Finishing takes 19.4 hours; clearing it takes 75, which is 3.9 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
68% start to 7% 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
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Maliki : Poison Of The Past scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2893260/maliki-poison-of-the-pastThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3, price as of Sep 22.
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