The Tiny Bang Story
Worth it · Narrative · 2011
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.5h
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Standard, 184 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve...
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was August 2014. It has been discounted 124 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. 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.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Gorogoa ($14.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Hidden Folks ($14.99, scores 69).
Critics scored it 63. Players sit 24 points higher at 87 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 464 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 416 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Players
10 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
As a fan of point-and-click adventures, I really wanted to enjoy The Tiny Bang Story. Unfortunately, the puzzles became tedious, the gameplay felt boring, and I quickly lost interest. Not recommended.
there are so many things to write about but don't know where to start, so im just gonna say there is no point to this game. what am i doing? no story or anything to lead on, just click on everything till you get something. when i click esc or any button i just want to pass to menu screen don't want to see 30 seconds of intro every time accidentally my mouse went to the right side of the screen, wait for 10 seconds...
Played with my 6 year old grandson. He absolutely loved the game and was sad when we finished it.
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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The Tiny Bang Story scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/96000/the-tiny-bang-storyThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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