Pathway

Pathway

Skip · Roguelike · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 43, under the fair line, at $4.79.

Cost per hour
$0.44/hr
Reviews▼
77% of 2,267
Critics
68 players 9 higher
Genre rank
Top 58% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reviews, Reach

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
11h
To 100%
37.3h 3.4x the story
Finish
56% reach the ending
Achievements
75

Price and sales

Sales
54 on record
Typical cut
60% off
Steam low
$4.79 May 2023
Sale every
34d last November 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $4.79 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
5 now
Cheaper than
26% of its genre
Better reviewed
41% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

78% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

54 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $4.79 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Horizon's Gate ($19.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Earthling's Undertaking ($10.99, scores 13).

More about Pathway

68 from critics against 77 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

1 of the 452 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 343 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 11 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 37, 3.4 times as much.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach150K+ 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
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 452 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

What players say

ultimately i think i can recommend this for turn based tactics gamers and for folks who love killing nazis looking for magic artifacts tropes. its a bit simple but it gets the job done and scratches the itch just enough to get on discount.
RydaRecommendedafter 13h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review
This is a terrific game with solid tactical combat and a real sense of adventure. The game's two main mechanisms are character building and resource management. While the resource management is basic and unobtrusive (fuel, supplies and ammo), the character building has a lot of variety and has a definite impact on how each mission (as well as each individual encounter) will go. You characters have typical RPG style...
N20 GamesRecommendedafter 34hJun 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD4000 or better, OpenGL 3.3, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Pathway scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/546430/pathway
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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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+9
Critics68
Players77
Metacritic critics · 2,267 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperRobotality
PublisherChucklefish
GenreRoguelike
Released2019
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements75