Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal
Skip · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $7.99.
- Length
- 13.3h
- Value
- $0.60/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, 3D- Graphics card, 8MB (GeForce, Voodoo 5500), 1.4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The legends speak of a long forgotten prophecy... of a shining hero and of perilous adventures... of sinister powers, strange worlds and swarms of fairies ... but they said nothing of a girl with a big heart instead of a big sword!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.79, set in October 2017. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 97 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 50 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition ($39.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Immortals Fenyx Rising ($3.99, scores 34).
None of the 404 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 403 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 41 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 13.3 hours; clearing it takes 33, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
Players
3 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 loved this game as a kid. Still amazing. make sure you follow the fixes for the menu in the community guide and have fun.
Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal, developed by Funatics Software and published by Daedalic Entertainment, is one of those rare early-2000s titles that still feels oddly distinctive despite its age. It combines exploration, creature collection, and real-time combat in a way that never became standard, which is part of why it remains memorable long after release. While it is often compared to monster-collecting games, it...
Необычно, но технические проблемы портят картину (фов постоянно слетает, альттаб приводит к перезапуску игры). Но ни во что подобное не играл, сражения фей-покемонов в виде шутана это прикольно) А, и саундтрек 11/10.
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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Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/384570/zanzarah-the-hidden-portalThe 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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