The Tiny Bang Story
Worth it · Narrative · 2011
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99. Typically $0.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews▼
- 87% of 6,665
- Critics
- 63 players 24 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 6% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.5h
- To 100%
- 3.8h 1.1x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 126 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 August 2014
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 86% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 126 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 6 percent. 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 Lil' Guardsman ($19.99, scores 69).
More about The Tiny Bang Story
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 466 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 418 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 19 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
a childhood game of mine, i finally replayed it with my mom and we both cried. i have so many memories of this game, especially with my dad and brother, who have sadly passed on. writing this review is already hard, but i love this game with all my heart.
1 more review, not recommended
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.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Standard, 184 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Tiny Bang Story scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/96000/the-tiny-bang-storyReviews 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 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.