Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Worth it · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 28h
- Value
- $0.71/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 | Radeon R7 240, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Discover a brand new RPG from the creators of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Facing an imminent invasion, Meve — war-veteran and Queen of Lyria and Rivia — is forced to once again enter the warpath and set out on a dark journey of destruction and revenge.
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The value story
June 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. 72 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition ($49.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Reigns ($2.99, scores 76).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 808 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
78% start to 8% 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
112 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
Do NOT get this game if you like Gwent, there's no Gwent in it. Maybe it gets better if you push through the puzzle battles, each of which changes the rules for both playing and winning - and you don't use your deck - and get to the story, which is supposed to be very good. Only bought to get more stuff for Gwent, sorely regretting it. It is NOT GWENT.
Completely diferent from the TW3 Gwent, I never know what the cards do, and every puzzle win costs 1k losses.
I just wanted to fool around with the silly card game I quite enjoyed in the Witcher 3, but 9/10 card events in this game are set up as puzzles, with fixed enemies, fixed card selections, and anal special rules that give you one singular solution for getting through any of it. Zero replay value, absolutely not what I wanted or expected.
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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Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales scores 82/100 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/973760/thronebreaker-the-witcher-talesThe 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 18, price as of Sep 24.
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