Tacoma
Fair · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.59. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.24/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 4,835
- Critics
- 76 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 8% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Score at full price
Score today
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.34 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.5h
- To 100%
- 3.6h 1.4x the story
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 90 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 32d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 84% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
44% start to 9% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
November 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Across all 90 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games closest to it, The Station ($14.99, scores 52) and Event[0] ($19.99, scores 41) both come in lower.
More about Tacoma
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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
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"...
2 more reviews
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.
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Tacoma scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/343860/tacomaReviews 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 Oct 19, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.