The Children of Clay
BANGER · Strategy · 2025
The verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsS
- 99% of 4,129
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Time and effort
- Main story
- 0.3h
- To 100%
- 0.4h 1.3x the story
- Finish
- 79% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 6
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Recent reviews
- 98% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
84% start to 79% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is the best reviewed of its genre. The nearest things to it, Liquidators (free, scores 83) and PockeDate! - Pocket Dating Simulator (free, scores 83), are both worse buys on this math.
Its player count is falling. 2 were online at the highest of our weekly checks over 21 days, 1 at the last one, on Nov 4, 05:48 UTC.
More about The Children of Clay
Steam's global achievement data puts 79 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18.
Buy now or wait
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
- Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
About the game
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 550 Ti (3072 VRAM); Radeon HD 6850 (1024 VRAM), 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Children of Clay scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 4,129 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3478700/the-children-of-clayReviews 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 Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.