Through the Woods
Skip · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 20, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $6.89/hr
- Reviews▼
- 71% of 1,686
- Critics
- 63 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 79% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.9h
- To 100%
- 4.7h 1.6x the story
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 74 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 October 2020
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 27% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
59% start to 4% 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
74 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 73 percent. The Path ($9.99, scores 44) outscores it, and so does Copycat ($14.99, scores 57). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Through the Woods
The press gave it 63; the people who bought it give it 71 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 489 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 250 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.
- 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
Through the Woods, developed by Antagonist and published by Fulqrum Publishing, is a slow-burning psychological horror experience that draws deeply from Scandinavian folklore while grounding its story in a very human emotional struggle. The game places players in the role of Karen, a mother searching for her missing son after a strange and unsettling abduction. Rather than rushing into conventional horror tropes, it...
1 more review, not recommended
Writing a review for this game is difficult, to say the least. I very much adore the Idea behind this game, but the execution is very clumsy. Everything taken from Norse Mythology is very well done and - to my understanding - very faithful to it's source! But it's all wrapped up in a story-driven journey through the perspective of an incredibly superficial, unlikeable and outright detestable protagonist who faces no...
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About the game
Through the Woods is a third-person Norse horror adventure set in a forest on the western shores of Norway that tells the story of a mother and her missing son.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 760 / 960 or equivalent with 2 GB VRAM, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Through the Woods scores 20/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/368430/through-the-woodsReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.