Awe
Skip · Short indie · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $0.99.
- Length
- 3h 6.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.33/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 255 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1748 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Awe is a god-game about expressing one’s creativity by shaping and building planets’ ecosystems in a soothing and relaxing ambiance carried by beautiful, minimalist lowpoly 3D art style and atmospheric music.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GeForce 8600 / Radeon HD 3670 / Intel HD 4000, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
47 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 51 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 250 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 50 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 70 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. LEGO® Builder's Journey ($19.99, scores 44) and Small Spaces ($12.99, scores 45) both outscore it.
More about Awe
Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 117 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 57 percent of everything written about it.
3 hours to finish it, 7 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
35% start to 5% 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
What players say
Quite a unique concept for a puzzle game. Sure you can place objects, but there is barely any 'creation' aspect here.. if at all. Initially the gameplay is about matching color sequences, later on it becomes like a solo version of the old board game 'mastermind'. Overall the game lacks any real depth, but is still worth a look for its original idea. Btw the lack of a tutorial is obviously intended.. it's...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
So close to this being a negative review.. Pros: Interesting mechanics, nice relaxing sounds and music, nice graphics and animations, reasonable amount of levels. Cons: Absolutely awful instructions. Simply terrible, you are pretty much on your own from the word go with next to no introduction to new mechanics or how to implement them. For example, seasons. If you can get around what you actually are required to do...
The game describes itself as relaxing take on the god game genre, and even looks like one. The gameplay however has nothing to do with a god game. It is basically the 'Simon says' segment from Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes with just enough extra mechanics to make it a 99 cents standalone game. The gameplay You are given a combinations of colors, and need to press the same colors in the right order on a spinning...
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Cite this score
Awe scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/371450/aweReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.