Toby: The Secret Mine
Skip · Narrative · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $0.99.
- Length
- 2.1h 2.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.47/hr
- Reviews
- 70% of 745 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000 or better, 799 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 95 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 77 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Pinstripe ($14.99, scores 49) and LIMBO ($12.49, scores 70) both outscore it.
More about Toby: The Secret Mine
Of the 210 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 140 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
50% 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
What players say
Derivative clone of Limbo with cheap, trial-and-error traps and braindead "puzzles." Uninstalled less than two hours in.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's buggy, frustrating, and not a puzzle game. I can literally overlook some minor bugs and the simple artwork, even it's mostly inspired by Limbo. But when the puzzles don't require any degree of thinking or problem solving, it just becomes another copycat 2D puzzle-platformer. If it's platforming related, don't make the mechanics so clunky. If it's puzzle related, the puzzles should be satisfying to solve, not...
Really enjoyed this one, reminded me a lot of LIMBO. My only issue was with the avalanche scene, the vibration was on full blast and I almost went blind from concentrating too hard on it. Great quick puzzle game!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Toby: The Secret Mine scores 28/100 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/395160/toby-the-secret-mineReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.