TumbleSeed

TumbleSeed

Skip · Roguelike · 2017

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 41, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
5.5h
Value
$2.73/hr
Reviews
77% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
5.5h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
7.3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.73
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
77%
216 reviews, as of Sep 30
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader Model 3.0 capable card, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

TumbleSeed is a deceptively deep roguelike about balancing a seed up a dangerous and ever-changing mountain.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews77% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 76% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$2.73/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length5.5 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
Refunds0 of 15 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

November 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $4.94. Its cuts run 67 percent off as a rule. There have been 21 in the 9 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.

It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Never Split the Party (free, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

59% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
TumbleSeed scores 41/100 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/457890/tumbleseed
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBenedict Fritz
Publisheraeiowu
GenreRoguelike
Released2017
Achievements13