Tails Noir
Skip · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $24.99.
- Length
- 4.6h
- Value
- $5.43/hr
- Reviews
- 67% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 760 or equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in August 2023. 45 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. The Case of the Golden Idol ($17.99, scores 72) and Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure ($1.59, scores 73) both outscore it.
None of the 200 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 140 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
63% start to 4% 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
2 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
People are hating on the ending, and as much as I see why, I still think that it was a good one. I guess that they would prefer the game to stay in more act 1 vibes then go on to do something completely different,
Recommend this game *if you can get it on sale*. Not worth the full price imo, for the reasons that are pointed out in almost every negative review here - halfway through the plot of the game breaks in illogical ways and never recovers. I do not object to open endings or unresolved plot threads, but in this game it is far too much. It feels like the story is missing several chapters between the middle and the...
Got this game on sale at some point because the art style interested me. The game starts off really strong with some very interesting puzzles and opportunities for deduction, but after a climatic reveal the game really takes a swan dive off a cliff with plodding on-rail segments punctuated with long, rambling word salads that I'd imagine speak to a lot of people, but the secret is that they are so vague you can...
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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Tails Noir scores 14/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/865610/tails-noirThe 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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