Eye of the Temple
Fair · Action · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $5.00/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 427 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.59 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
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About the game
Embark on a VR adventure to explore a vast and treacherous temple and uncover the ancient legend of the Eye. Keep your balance as you step between moving blocks, dodging hazardous traps and solving environmental puzzles with just your torch and whip in hand.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 970, 850 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 51 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Moss VR ($9.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Obduction ($11.99, scores 54).
More about Eye of the Temple
This site sampled 329 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to May 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 189 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 48 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
83% start to <1% 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
I came across the Steam Store page for this by accident, but it caught my eye because of the theme. After watching the trailer, I was intrigued. I finally started playing yesterday, and I give this game a big thumbs up. The way you move in the game is brilliant, and very innovative for a VR game. And at first I didn't understand what I was supposed to actually be doing, but once I figured that out, the game became...
2 more reviews
Eye of the Temple is a VR adventure built around an idea that sounds simple but becomes remarkably convincing once you are inside the headset: instead of controlling an explorer from a distance, you physically become the explorer. Developed and published by Rune Skovbo Johansen, the game takes players into a sprawling ancient temple filled with mechanical platforms, dangerous drops, puzzles, hidden treasures, and...
This is by far the best and most underrated VR game I have played to date. As much as I do love playing modded Skyrim VR, what gives Eye of the Temple a slight edge, is its clever use of roomscale. You only use the controllers to hold a torch in one hand and a whip in the other. I played pcvr with meta quest 3 headset and ran it through Virtual Desktop on my RTX 5070. I couldn't figure out how to engage the...
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Cite this score
Eye of the Temple scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/589940/eye-of-the-templeReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.