Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Worth it · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.88/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 4,744
- Critics
- 86 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 6% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.2h
- To 100%
- 6.4h 1.2x the story
- Achievements
- 58
Price and sales
- Sales
- 53 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $2.24 June 2019
- Sale every
- 70d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 14 now
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
77% start to 6% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 53 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 10 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $7.51, a level the record has reached 49 times.
Its score puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 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 Thimbleweed Park™ ($19.99, scores 71).
More about Day of the Tentacle Remastered
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 October 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
i bought it cause it reminds me of the "good old adventure" times. It was one of the best Adventures with "monkey Island" But it now feels a little old i must admit. Nevertheless its a good game with a crazy storyline. btw: Does anyone know "space Quest" compared to that those types of adventures where every single failure leads to death and "replay" compared to those frustrating titles Day of the Tentacle is and...
1 more review
One of the best point and click adventures ever made. Classic cartoon joke-writing, silly puzzles, and enough twists and turns to keep it interesting to the end. And bonus: OG Maniac Mansion is playable within it, so it's 2 games in 1.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2.9 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Day of the Tentacle Remastered scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/388210/day-of-the-tentacle-remasteredReviews 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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.