LOOM™
Worth it · Narrative · 2009
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 3h 3.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 716 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Long after the passing of the Second Shadow, when dragons ruled the twilight sky and the stars were bright and numerous, came the Age of the Great Guilds. Blacksmiths. Shepherds. Clerics. Each dedicated to the absolute control of secret knowledge. Another such Guild was the Weavers.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 31 MB of memory, 2 MB - PCI Graphics Card, 287 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 47 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™ ($5.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats The Night of the Rabbit ($3.99, scores 66).
More about LOOM™
This site sampled 268 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 192 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 03:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
(Please note that while I recommend this game, I do not recommend the Steam version of it. Please read on for more info!) -- Loom (1990) Or, The Secret to Eternal Youth (A Spoiler-Free Review) I. WHY IS LOOM THE BEST GAME EVER MADE? (Not clickbait°) °warning: may be clickbait. Okay, so maybe Loom isn't the best game ever made, but it is pretty darn high on the list. Released in 1990, this masterpiece was...
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Amazing game. Of all the classic adventure games i'd say this one has aged the best, with its streamlined controls and unique central spell-casting mechanic. Would highly recommend.
This game traumatized and captivated me as a child. I remember watching my dad play through the entire game. We lost the disk somehow so I never got to play it myself. All I could do was flip through the manual and occasionally search through my dad's office in the vain hope that the disk was just hiding somewhere. When I finally got around to grabbing a digital copy I was genuinely surprised how much of the game I...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
LOOM™ scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/32340/loomReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.