Timespinner
Fair · Multiplayer · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.9h
- Value
- $3.39/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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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.
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.
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.
The value story
June 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 42 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Celeste ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Dex ($19.99, scores 48).
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.
The drop-off
84% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
2 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
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
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...
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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Timespinner scores 66/100 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/368620/timespinnerThe 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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