Escape From Tethys
Skip · Action · 2018
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 5.5h 8.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.91/hr
- Reviews
- 70% of 457 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1519 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
You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1gb, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
43 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 217 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 73 percent of its genre. On the same math La-Mulana 2 ($24.99, scores 71) and Odallus: The Dark Call ($3.49, scores 76) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Escape From Tethys
Steam's global achievement data puts 24 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
The drop-off
48% start to 24% 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
More like "Escape from Tetris" given the blocky, square-ish graphics. Nice but generic homage to Metroid, with too many frustrating enemies that home in on you. The atmospheric soundtrack is very good, but it strangely goes uncredited.
1 more review
For an indie Metroid-like, this game mostly does its job. It sets the unsettling alien world vibe well in a pixel art fashion that relies mostly on its menacing enemies and changing surroundings to set the scene. With a plethora of bosses of varying difficulty which can be overcome with the different upgrades which are found throughout the map, it checks the boxes for all the expected steps from this type of game...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Escape From Tethys scores 28/100 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/822540/escape-from-tethysReviews 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.