The Signal From Tölva
Skip · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 17, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 6.2h
- Value
- $3.22/hr
- Reviews
- 68% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB, or equivalent., 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The Signal From Tölva is an open-world first-person shooter set on a distant, haunted, future world. Unlock savage weapons and recruit robots to fight alongside you as rival factions struggle to discover the source of the mysterious signal. What you discover will decide the fate of a world.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in August 2019. 93 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 76 percent. On the same math Sir, You Are Being Hunted ($19.99, scores 45) and Atomic Heart ($59.99, scores 40) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
None of the 266 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 153 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 6.2 hours. Doing everything runs 14, 2.2 times as long.
The drop-off
51% start to 3% 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
I loved this game. I've beaten it twice and it's tempting to go back for another run. The exploring portions are fun and very surreal with all kinds of massive sci-fi wreckage. The combat is simple, fun, and tense at times. The sci-fi premise is cool and drives the exploration and combat in a fun way. I would recommend it if you're looking for a more simplified shooter with great visuals.
This is not the usual kind of shooter. And while i found the experience to be pleasant overall, i have a strong feeling that a lot of people seeing guns and shooting will not get what they expect. The game loop is: you explore the world, capture places from enemies and find and scan mysterious things. The combat give you money and the scanning unlocks things to buy. Over time you get better weapons, better shields...
Its not a bad game by any means. But i dont feel i got what i was expecting either. Its just too bare bones. Its too little set in a world far to big for its pants. i spent basically 2 hours walking. I have killed idk, maybe 100 bots? Most of those were at outposts. The action wasnt just sparsed out, it was non existent for large parts of the game. I was left wondering what the hell is this? am i playing the game...
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Cite this score
The Signal From Tölva scores 17/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/457760/the-signal-from-t-lvaReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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