Syberia
Worth it · Narrative · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $12.99.
- Length
- 9.7h
- Value
- $1.34/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX compatible graphics card with 128 MB memory, 1.2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Join Kate Walker as she travels to remote locations and time periods in this timeless voyage to discover her true destiny.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in June 2014. 110 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Syberia II ($12.99, scores 60) and Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink ($14.99, scores 52).
Of the 525 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 482 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
At 9.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Players
25 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
it looks beautiful, sounds great, the voice acting is pretty good, and the puzzles are nicely integrated, if a bit obtuse. My one gripe is how damn slow Kate is even when running -- she loves to pause and reposition herself and leisurely walk up the stairs... but if you don't mind that this game is quite fun
I absolutely love this game! I've lost count of how many times I've played through it, yet I still find myself coming back to it regularly, even though I know the story almost by heart. Maybe it's partly nostalgia, but this series has something special that I still can't find in many newer games. The visuals, based on Benoît Sokal's artwork, are beautiful and have a unique atmosphere. On top of that, the soundtrack...
Definitely not everyone's cup of coffee, but this old school point and click adventure kept me engaged and curious all the way to the end.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Syberia scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/46500/syberiaThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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