Clocker
Fair · RPG · 2019
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.6h
- Value
- $1.92/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 284 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space. The only key to the winding puzzle - a time-controling pocket-watch - lies in the hands of a clockmaker Father. The watch creates a mysterious barrier between the Father and his estranged Daughter.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000 Series, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 63 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 84 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is cheaper than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Creepy Tale ($4.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Braid, Anniversary Edition ($19.99, scores 55).
More about Clocker
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
18% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Clocker is a time manipulating puzzle game that is often compared to Braid. However, it's also a bit different. Braid gives you puzzle rooms with little context, you're only supposed to figure out how to get the puzzle pieces. With Clocker, you are observing a town with NPC living their lives. You're given context based on what the NPC are doing/saying and the situations they're in. Often times you know what you're...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This was quite a complicated at times puzzle game. It has nice visuals, music, and an interesting story about time, and how you should treasure it, before it's gone. It's a short game with some difficult puzzles. I know I definitely got stuck at least two times during the game, heck, one of those times was in the first area, but once solved, boy is it great. The story too is quite interesting, with a daughter and...
It's actually got pretty interesting gameplay with reversing and changing the outcome of people's actions with time manipulation. This part I like. But there are 2 major problems: 1. The English translation is broken and strange, clearly not done by someone with a firm grasp of the language, makes the whole game sound awkward 2. The "true" ending (or really the only one people would enjoy) is not going to be...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Clocker scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/916050/clockerReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.