Thea: The Awakening
Worth it · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 18.9h
- Value
- $1.06/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 10 class GPU with 1GB VRAM, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based strategic survival game inspired by the Slavic mythology and set in a procedural dark fantasy world infused with non-linear story and unique combat system.
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The value story
May 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 75 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 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 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, NEO Scavenger ($14.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Age ($14.99, scores 57).
The press gave it 73; the people who bought it give it 88 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 438 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 162 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 18.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 74, 3.9 times as much.
The drop-off
54% start to 2% 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
Players
32 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
This game is not fun. It's irritating, tedious and old or something. And I'm a huge fan of RPG elements with the whole 4x4 mechanics. I've played Civilization, Frostpunk, Endless Legend and others before this. And this is just not fun. Curious but not fun. 1. Stats are everywhere. The battling is awful. I usually just auto resolve and win. Never won any divine or cosmic tree stories because they'd be way too crazy...
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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Thea: The Awakening scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/378720/thea-the-awakeningThe 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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