Tangle Tower
Fair · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $6.03, only fair at $19.99.
- Length
- 5.5h
- Value
- $3.63/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 553 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was May 2023. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 62 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $6.03, a level the record has reached 41 times.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Loco Motive ($17.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse ($24.99, scores 60).
Of the 605 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
88% start to 37% 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
30 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
Great improvement from the previous game. The ending is not the most satisfying but it sets up for something bigger, like the loose ties in Detective Grimoire.
These are the ones that make it all worth it. Detective Grimoire was good for what it was, but Tangle Tower is the best-case scenario where the devs managed to improve on every single aspect while also sharpening its strengths, specifically the cast. The game is a delight to play through thanks in large part to the fantastic script and voice-acting that makes every character feel fully realized from the get-go. A...
I love games, but every so often, one becomes my happy place. Something in the writing, the characters, the performances, the game play just inspires my imagination. Tangle Tower is one of those games. I wholly recommend the entire Detective Grimoire series!
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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Tangle Tower scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/359510/tangle-towerThe 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 23, price as of Sep 24.
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