Tacoma
Worth it · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 2.5h
- Value
- $1.20/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Onboard or dedicated graphics accelerator with 1GB+ of video RAM, 11 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
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The value story
November 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 67 percent off as a rule. There have been 88 in the 9 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 85 percent off still sits 50 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 49 at list, 73 today.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games closest to it, The Station ($14.99, scores 46) and The Solus Project ($19.99, scores 49) both come in lower.
76 from critics against 86 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 465 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 313 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
44% start to 9% 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.
What players say
It is staggerring how much detail there is in this game that would go completely unnoticed by most players. There's so much extra information and appreciation for the characters that can be gained simply by looking at what books they have in their rooms. The worldbuilding is likewise shockingly good and expansive for such a short game, and is also an impressive excercise in prescience. Seeing a "president Musk"...
Nice short game that gives you a story that you have to discover through immersing yourself in the environment. Pros: AR Cat Good story Fun character storylines Cons: I didn't get the Catsitter acheivement
fun game, with a very prescient story. however it is VERY short. i finished it in a about 2 hours, which i wouldn't mind, but it doesn't really do anything super interesting with that time. and i say that as a fan of walking simulators. get it on sale like i did, but it is not worth full price.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Tacoma scores 73/100 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/343860/tacomaThe 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 Sep 22, price as of Sep 24.
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