Tharsis
Skip · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $6.81/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Succeeding in Tharsis requires you to make the best of what you have, even if it happens to be a pair of snake eyes. Certain factors may be outside of your control, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be overcome. Tharsis is not a game about facing the odds. It’s a game about changing them.
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
March 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. 58 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Out There: Ω Edition ($14.99, scores 42) beats it on value, while it beats The Long Journey Home ($9.99, scores 5).
Of the 266 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 301 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 13, 5.9 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
46% start to 2% 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
What players say
This game wasn't even worth 7.49 on sale. @ 2.7 hours of gameplay i beat the game twice and there is no point in continuing no real new content to come.
This game is interesting but not worth the price it might have replay but it has no depth and is too short.
I managed to get 14 hours out of this game and felt like I got my money worth since I had gotten it on sale. $10 or under and I'd say pull the trigger.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Tharsis scores 27/100 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/323060/tharsisReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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