TARTARUS
Skip · Action · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 2.8h 6h to 100%
- Value
- $7.14/hr
- Reviews
- 54% of 214 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2482 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
Can the cook save the ship?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GT 730 2GB DDR3, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 13 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 355 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. Q.U.B.E. 2 ($24.99, scores 45) outscores it, and so does The Talos Principle ($29.99, scores 77). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about TARTARUS
2.8 hours to finish it, 6 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
82% start to 15% 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 should like this because I love these type of games. Unfortunately this is really bad, I do not recommend playing this.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
I guess the developers have given up supporting this game. It has some horrendous game breaking bugs in the later levels that (on my machine) literally grinds things to a halt. Looking through the forum posts, the devs were aware of the issues back in 2017. Well, here we are in 2022, and they STILL haven't fixed it. What a bloody waste of my money.
Mildly enjoyable game, with so-so puzzles, and an interesting story. Not great, not terrible. That is, not terrible until you reach the ending. The puzzles are relatively light. Some are straightforward "follow the instructions" jobs, while others have the "what in hell am I supposed to do here?!!?" challenge attached. Once you figure out what you actually need to solve, they, too, become "follow the instructions"...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
TARTARUS scores 2/100 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/608530/tartarusReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.