Timespinner
Fair · Multiplayer · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9975% off
- Cost per hour
- $3.39/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 3,198
- Critics
- 73 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reach, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 5.9h
- To 100%
- 12.1h 2.1x the story
- Achievements
- 37
Price and sales
- Sales
- 43 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 June 2024
- Sale every
- 57d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
84% start to 11% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
43 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Celeste ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats AWAKEN - Astral Blade ($19.99, scores 50).
More about Timespinner
73 from critics against 86 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 590 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 129 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 12, 2.1 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $9.99 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
i liked the game, it was more than decent gripe: EQUIPMENT leveling, my orbs (weapons) leveling up discourages me from using newly acquired, perhaps cooler orbs
2 more reviews
A good game if you hunger for modern Castlevania-style fun. Just be aware that it is absolutely loaded with LGBT relationships and doesn't suggest so anywhere on the surface, once you get deep into quests or message logs you get dunked in the implications seemingly as a reward. It's no wonder none of the past people's relatives exist in the present day. As I summed up for one of my relatives: there's plenty to...
Timespinner is a pretty good Igavania about a Young Adult Fantasy Book Heroine experiencing a character arc in a time adventure. Mechanically this is a pretty good imitation of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and its derivatives, but with extra time travel flavor. The controls feel great, it has a good selection of abilities and environments, the map is fun to uncover, and the pixel art, creature designs and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible, PixelShader & Vertex Shader 1.1, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Timespinner scores 66/100 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/368620/timespinnerReviews 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 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.