Tales of the Neon Sea
Fair · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $16.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.9h
- Value
- $1.91/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GT 730 OR Radeon HD 4830, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Welcome to a world of intrigue and suspicion. Where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust. And where gangster felines scheme their way to the top of the food chain. Welcome to the Tales of the Neon Sea!
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.69, set in June 2026. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 76 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. On the same math Loco Motive ($17.99, scores 72) and The Rise of the Golden Idol ($13.99, scores 78) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 762 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 261 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
80% start to 26% 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
Players
34 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 14:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I wasn't ready to leave this world. It never felt like I was simply playing through a game; it felt like I'd stepped into a story that had been unfolding long before I arrived, one that would continue long after I was gone. The credits rolled, but a part of me stayed behind, still wondering what became of the people I met and the questions left unanswered. There is a strange sadness in leaving a place where so much...
Puzzle based gameplay rarely appeals to me, and Tales of the Neon Sea was no exception. Many of its puzzles felt uninteresting and often interrupted the flow of the story. They worked best when they were simple and unobtrusive, giving me a reason to spend more time in deserted areas, explore their hidden corners, and let the tension build before moving on. Despite that, I genuinely enjoyed the game and became quite...
Get passed the few woke agenda elements in the game, and you're left with something beautiful. Loved the game honestly. Bought it a very long time ago on a whim, and forgot I had it in my library. So I decided: "Let me try it out!". No regrets honestly! The story and the puzzles are the games most apparent strong suits. How everything works initially looks basic, but actually is wonderfully complex in its own way...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Tales of the Neon Sea scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/828740/tales-of-the-neon-seaReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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