Faces of Illusion: The Twin Phantoms
Skip · Narrative · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 12, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 2.5h 3.2h to 100%
- Value
- $6.00/hr
- Reviews
- 62% of 200 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 12 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
Dive into a spectacle of magic and illusion!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 72 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. On the same math Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek ($14.99, scores 52) and Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden ($14.99, scores 57) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Faces of Illusion: The Twin Phantoms
Steam's global achievement data puts 51 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
The drop-off
56% start to 51% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
As I usually do, I will recommend this game entirely because it works and has some decent puzzles, which is never a guarantee in this sphere of gaming. But uhhhg, this game. I had to replay it a second time to get 2 achievements I had missed in the first play-through, and, let me tell you, the poorly written story and bad character animation do NOT get better on a second inspection. The added child character was...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The game is ok, it has everything that make these Artifex Mundi games what they are. No roadblock riddles or anything, good progress in the story which is only one big hunt after the villain with no interesting change of locations.
The first impression was rather good. The game started on the positive note. Unfortunately most of the good stuff became very 'meh' before even reaching the midgame. Visuals are more or less ok, I guess. Gameplay was boring. You barely encounter any HoG scenes. Puzzles were nothing special - you are just clicking stuff most of the time without any thought process. The story is extremely dumb. Most of the time you...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Faces of Illusion: The Twin Phantoms scores 12/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/558340/faces-of-illusion-the-twin-phantomsReviews 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 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.