Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Worth it · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.50.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $2.88/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2.9 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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
It has never been cheaper than $2.24. That was June 2019. It has been discounted 52 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. 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. It becomes a BANGER at $7.50, a level the record has reached 48 times.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grim Fandango Remastered ($14.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ ($9.99, scores 63).
Critics scored it 86. Players sit 11 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 342 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, 93 percent of the 419 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
77% start to 6% 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
16 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 took me back to my childhood in the 90s... I was crazy about this game and would make sure to play it every day after school. Those days we didn't have smart devices or laptops (one for each) There used to be one Computer for the entire family and me and my sister were together trying to solve it. The Remastered version is great. I don't remember much about the puzzles so am exploring them again and trying...
Going back to the old days with this classic. Very nicely remastered, I say. This game is so funny!
Old school point and click one of the games that made Tim Shafer reputation, fun silly time travel plot with some very stupid and annoying puzzles. A really good remaster which shows both the orginal and remastered art and offers modern conviences.
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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Day of the Tentacle Remastered scores 72/100 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/388210/day-of-the-tentacle-remasteredThe 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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