There Came an Echo
Skip · Strategy · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.5h
- Value
- $4.28/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 384 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 178 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
There Came an Echo is a real-time strategy game in which the player assumes command of a small squadron, using an advanced voice recognition system to issue orders. It features a character-driven sci-fi narrative that stars Wil Wheaton, Ashly Burch, Laura Bailey, Yuri Lowenthal, and more!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or greater, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 41 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 25 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 49 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition ($4.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Satellite Reign ($29.99, scores 29).
More about There Came an Echo
Critics scored it 58. Players sit 15 points higher at 73 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
50% start to 10% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
I really want to like the game, but the voice control is absolutely god awful. I've used various different microphones and it misinterprets my commands often, even somehow reading "pause" in dead air. Whatever voice processing this game uses, it's very old, I've not had this sort of trouble with anything voice controlled since the 2000's. There is an alternatively command interface but it's finicky too, I can't use...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
One more cinematic lemon pretending to be a game. Opening credits are a good clue that the thing tries to be a movie, albeit with rudimentary animation and a flow constantly broken by loading screens. Furthermore, unlike an actual movie but very much like failed software, none of the cinematic garbage can be skipped. I couldn't take more than 30 minutes of it. Of which 5 minutes at best were spent playing. If you...
Iridium Studios' previous game, Sequence (now renamed Before the Echo ), is the only game I have ever purchased twice from different suppliers because I had such a blast playing it. So it's fair to say that I didn't go into There Came an Echo with zero expectations: I was hoping for another game from the same indie developers that would hit me in a similar way. Something fresh and innovative, an engaging background...
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Cite this score
There Came an Echo scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/319740/there-came-an-echoReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.