Primordia

Primordia

Steam Deck Verified

Wormwood Studios · Point & Click · Dec 5, 2012

Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $2.99.

97%
Overwhelmingly Positive
3k player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 258 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 98 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 58 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews

Based on 3k player reviews · updated 4 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
75% of themes are praise25% are divided0% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
After some trials and tribulations for the characters (i.e. fun puzzles for us to solve), the way to the city is clear and a train bound for the city is welcoming them on...
258 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
The soundtrack is comprised of ambient, semi-industrial tracks that compliment the art wonderfully.
98 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
The game has this consistent, kind of spindly and organic art style makes all of the robots fascinating to look at.
58 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
Truly one of the greatest point and click adventure games of the modern era, Primordia is the complete package; visuals, audio, enjoyable characters, story, dialogue, and challenging gameplay.
36 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Interface
Players who bring up Interface mostly praise it.
As for gameplay, it's pretty standard point and click with an inventory, characters help progress the story, so does combining inventory items and using them in the right places.
22 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Steam Deck
Players who bring up Steam Deck mostly praise it.
I had this on my wishlist for quite some time. looking for a relaxing gane to play with my steam deck on the caoch on my evenings I tried this.
7 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love6 themes
Story and characters258 reviews
Audio98 reviews
Graphics58 reviews
Gameplay36 reviews
Interface22 reviews
Steam Deck7 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Difficulty22 reviews
100%
Bugs7 reviews
86%
Players complain% still recommend

No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $2.99 (−70%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

5 points recordedtoday · $2.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
97%
Overwhelmingly Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
29
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.

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