The Eyes of Ara
Fair · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.5h 12.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.58/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 854 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- 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
Explore a vast, mysterious castle riddled with secret rooms and challenging puzzles in this award-winning puzzle adventure.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Video card with Shader model 3.0 support and at least 256MB of Memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 58 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Machinika: Museum ($1.19, scores 87) outscores it, and so does The House of Da Vinci 3 ($19.99, scores 62). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about The Eyes of Ara
Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 388 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
87% start to 28% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Sep 26, 06:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I give this game a qualified recommendation. I probably spent around 20 non-idle hours exploring this castle. I had fun, and I was pretty proud of myself when I (without doing any outside research) reached the "office" room which--as I initially suspected and later confirmed on YouTube--is the gateway to the endgame. But this game makes the notable and somewhat hardcore design choice not to distinguish between...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A mesmerizing first person puzzly adventure. In The Eyes of Ara, you arrive to an old castle to uncover its secrets. The game plays as a mix of other puzzle games like The Room and Safecracked. You start with limited rooms opened, but as you solve puzzles and find secret mechanisms you get to lots of new rooms in the castle. The game is splitted into 3 parts or chapters. There's also quite a lot of diary and book...
Others have stated this better than I could already. If you don't mind a lot of pixel hunting and trying to see obscured buttons/trinkets/pull chains in dark, dingy environments, you might have fun with this game. Most of the game is just that, clicking on a lot of the background spots or hovering your mouse to find objects of interesting. Some of the puzzles are... out there. And some don't even follow their own...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Eyes of Ara scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/454250/the-eyes-of-araReviews 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.