Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince
Fair · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.2h
- Value
- $2.94/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or AMD Radeon HD 5700, 16 GB of storage. Windows only.
A physics-based puzzle platformer in breathtaking 2.5D. A haunted prince's nightmares are leaking into the waking world — chase him down as wizard, knight and thief, solving puzzles of fire, water, light, magnets, electricity and more. Play solo or with up to three friends, online or in local co-op.
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
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was March 2025. 68 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Trine 2: Complete Story ($19.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power ($21.99, scores 12).
The press gave it 81; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 1,089 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 10.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
83% start to 6% 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
76 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
The ultimate co-op experience for parents and kids! Trine 4 is a super fun platformer with gorgeous, fairy-tale visuals. Honestly, playing it solo would probably feel a bit too easy and casual for an adult, but playing in co-op with my 10-year-old daughter? It's an absolute bullseye. The puzzles and pacing are just right for playing together. If you're looking for a great game to share and pass the time with your...
Fun and absolutely beautiful game, I loved the graphics, me and my bae took many photos :P Puzzles are nice, smooth gameplay and I enjoyed every part of this game, recommended!
You have to link an Epic account with a Steam account to play online. So if you don't have an Epic account, you do not get to play with friends or online. Singleplayer only. Garbage game. "DO NOT BUY"!!!
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.
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Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince scores 58/100 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/690640/trine-4-the-nightmare-princeThe 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.
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