TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children

TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children

BANGER · RPG · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

A BANGER at $24.99.

Length
84.5h
Value
$0.30/hr
Reviews
93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
84.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
165.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.30
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
93%
9,867 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.

TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children is the first season of a turn-based strategy SRPG that takes place in the world of Troubleshooter.
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
Value$0.30/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement12% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
For context
Length85 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds13 of 800 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

It has never been cheaper than $6.24. That was February 2026. 99 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games closest to it, Those Who Rule ($17.99, scores 68) and Low Magic Age ($14.99, scores 66) both come in lower.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 84.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 13 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,324 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 553 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

81% start to 12% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

Players

105 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 19:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

It's literally so peak, but I will say that you'll need to invest some serious playtime before it starts to get there. Autism required beyond this point!!
artichokememommyRecommendedafter 226hSep 2026Read on Steam
Only downside of this game is the ending is unresolved and leaving too many loose ends if you care about story. But this game's awesome companion chemistry, satisfying leveling, building system and captivating ensemble narrative easily overshadow its drawbacks. Overall, highly recommended.
cskRecommendedafter 150hSep 2026Read on Steam
this game is really good, my 1st time do the review in steam. it feels success to replicate the enjoyment of reading zero-hero manhwa inside the game. excited for the sequel!
inginminumRecommendedafter 146hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/470310/troubleshooter-abandoned-children
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Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

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Details

DeveloperDandylion
PublisherDandylion
GenreRPG
Released2020
Achievements263