Through the Woods
Skip · Narrative · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 71% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
October 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 72 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 72 percent. The Path ($9.99, scores 37) outscores it, and so does Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice ($29.99, scores 55). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
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 287 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 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.
The drop-off
59% start to 4% 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
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Through the Woods scores 19/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/368430/through-the-woodsThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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