Quern - Undying Thoughts
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 80% over the last 30 days against 91% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 650 2GB or AMD HD7770 2GB, 9 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.74. That was June 2025. It has been discounted 71 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 55 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Painscreek Killings ($19.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs ($19.99, scores 20).
83 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Players rate it 91 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 80 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 3 of the 532 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, 38 percent of the 168 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
75% start to 6% 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
Players
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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Quern - Undying Thoughts scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/512790/quern-undying-thoughtsThe 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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