Drawn®: The Painted Tower
Fair · Narrative · 2011
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.4h 7h to 100%
- Value
- $2.94/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 208 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
Enter the world of Drawn, and unravel the secrets of the Painted Tower. Overcome challenging puzzles on your quest to save Iris. A curse has locked each floor of the tower, and only the most creative adventurer can find a way through.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB, 645 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 46 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Down in Bermuda ($19.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats LEGO® Builder's Journey ($19.99, scores 44).
More about Drawn®: The Painted Tower
The main story runs 3.4 hours. Doing everything runs 7, 2.1 times as long.
The drop-off
86% start to 7% 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
The Drawn series is one of the first HOG game series I ever played quite a few years ago, and I remember being totally enraptured with it. I've replayed the series since, and while I can see some flaws I didn't notice before, I still love these games to pieces. The story line is well-written, the voice acting is fantastic, and the score is beautiful. The game play even elevates itself beyond a typical HOG experience...
2 more reviews
I played this game when it first came out 15 years ago at another site. I remember that it had been hugely popular back then but had forgotten so many of the details. I was very happy to see that it plays fine on Windows 10 and had no problems at all. A very unique puzzle game that is delightful with a large variety of puzzles, some harder than others. This is the first of three in the series and is continued in the...
A really nice and unique game. The story and the mechanics are really cool and the whole ambience is really well made. One of the games that i can play again an again without getting boring. I can really highly recommend it
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Drawn®: The Painted Tower scores 50/100 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/51060/drawn-the-painted-towerReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.