Primordia

Buy96%

Overwhelmingly Positive · 3k player reviews · Medium confidence

Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.

Steam Deck Verified
  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Wormwood Studios · Point & Click · Dec 5, 2012

Player review score
96%
Overwhelmingly Positive
Price
$9.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
29
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
7
Full audio1 of 7
Subtitles7 of 7

Should I buy Primordia?

Buy it if you like
  • Story: 219 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 92 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 58 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Interface: 18 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 3k player reviews · updated

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
70% of themes are praise20% are divided10% are complaints
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
219 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The best P&C game I've played yet, Primordia thrilled me with excellent world design, an engaging plot, memorable characters, and fun puzzles.
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
92 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The soundtrack is comprised of ambient, semi-industrial tracks that compliment the art wonderfully.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
58 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The game has this consistent, kind of spindly and organic art style makes all of the robots fascinating to look at.
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
53 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
It's a fantastic character driven mystery that holds a thoughtful and tonally varied exploration of an apocalypse where only robots survive and what sense they try and find in that world and the wide variety of beliefs they come to hold and what the build.
Difficulty
Players who bring up Difficulty mostly praise it.
20 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The puzzles are pretty well done, with most in the mid-range of difficulty.
Steam Deck
Players who bring up Steam Deck mostly praise it.
7 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
This was a perfect game to play in bed on my steam deck, and I'm super glad I tried it out.

+1 more players loved

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Story219 reviews
Audio92 reviews
Graphics58 reviews
Gameplay53 reviews
Difficulty20 reviews
Steam Deck7 reviews
Characters5 reviews
Divided opinion
Bugs
86% still recommend
Linux compatibility
100% still recommend
Players complain
Interface
89% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Single-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Captions available
  • Commentary available
  • Family Sharing
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Trading Cards

Platforms

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Valve device support

Steam DeckVerified
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachineVerified

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$9.99

The lowest we've tracked is $2.99.

6 points recordedtoday · $9.99

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