Aporia: Beyond The Valley
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$16.99Skip
On its price record
$9.82Fair
- Length
- 5.4h 10.9h to 100%
- Value
- $3.15/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 781 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.82 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $5.09 (70% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
CRYNEGINE Indie Game of 2017. Featuring an incredibly detailed ancient world and a breathtaking soundtrack, Aporia: Beyond the Valley takes open world storytelling to new heights of adventure.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or similar, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 35 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Red Matter ($24.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Nephise Begins ($0.99, scores 11).
More about Aporia: Beyond The Valley
Critics scored it 71. Players sit 11 points higher at 82 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 216 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The main story runs 5.4 hours. Doing everything runs 11, 2.0 times as long.
The drop-off
47% start to 3% 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
What players say
This is basically a walking exploration simulator. Graphics look nice and there's stuff to do. I don't feel like there's much else to it. Maybe get this one on sale it's up to you.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Finished it and now my thoughts feel like forgotten temples whispering cosmic secrets.
Visually it's okay. However, it's a walking sim that has you wander between mediocre puzzles, has no unique mechanics and feels overall very forgettable. The majority of players quits around when the 1st chapter ends, possibly because it's easy to get lost at any point or because of a somewhat complex puzzle that happens around the end of the chapter or because of possible performance issues. There are significant...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Aporia: Beyond The Valley scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/573130/aporia-beyond-the-valleyReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.