Relicta
Skip · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 18, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 14h 25.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 67% of 473 positive
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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
Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 / ATI Radeon HD 5770, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 58 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Moss VR ($9.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Kiki ($0.99, scores 0).
More about Relicta
Of the 233 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 14 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
95% start to 5% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 07:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A very innovative and interesting puzzle game. It is similar to Valve's Portal and Portal 2 games, where you really need to use your brain to progress. The puzzles mostly involve gravity and magnetization, which is a nice twist. The use of momentum and physics makes it interactive. The level design is beautiful and the scenery is stunning. The levels are nearly dummy-proof, so accidental softlocks are rare. However...
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Cite this score
Relicta scores 18/100 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/941570/relictaReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.