TUNIC
Fair · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.3h
- Value
- $2.44/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Watch this gameOne email when it is worth buying. Your call on what that means.
Get one email when TUNIC is worth buying.
One email per game. Unsubscribe in a click.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 660 / RX 460, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
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.
The value story
June 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 19 in the 5 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Death's Door ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas ($14.99, scores 49).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 814 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
At 12.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
97% 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
Players
114 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
this is a cool game which im not exactly the best at but i very much enjoyed it and played with nearly 8h as far as i could manage 4 years ago when i last played looking through my library rn and saw i can write a review for tunic so here we are :D
It's not just a visual masterpiece but also a magnificent work of art and map design
I played over 32 hours but steam I don't why shows 32 anyway it is too good to be passed on one of the best puzzle games I played some puzzles were struggling I played over 20 hours before finding out what golden plates was for after I found it my mind was blown away the my brain were connecting dots like crazy I acquired all achievements myself because I spammed the arrow keys for specific combination for finding...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Embed the live badge, copy the line, or download the card.
TUNIC scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/553420/tunicThe 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 Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
A number here look wrong? Tell me what it got wrong and I will look at the inputs behind it.