Alwa's Awakening
Fair · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.2h
- Value
- $1.39/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 83% ($1.69)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 90% ($0.99)
- Last discount ended
- 39 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 276 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
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
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 85 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 6 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 19 percent on value. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($7.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Castle In The Darkness ($9.99, scores 43).
Critics scored it 71. Players sit 9 points higher at 80 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 401 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
56% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
At best, it is OK. But way too many instant deaths - not even difficult but gets really annoying
SO glad I bought this while it was on sale for 90% off, because this game is very disappointing. Saw a video where one of the creators was talking it up & it looked fun, like a lot of other retro-style games, but upon playing it and encountering the clunky, garbage physics where every jump is just out of reach. I honestly felt like I must've been missing some power-up for the first hour I played it. Upon getting the...
Really simple and easy little platformer. I can't really call this a Metroidvania, as is. You only get spells that give you more movement options, there are no "upgrades" to give you double jumps ect. But the puzzles were elementary, combat was simple and easy, instant death spikes were the only real threat the whole game, only few bosses here and there. It's basically a nice introductory game to platforming...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Alwa's Awakening scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/549260/alwa-s-awakeningReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 1.
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