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2012 · Platformer · Side Scroller · Sci-fi

How long isThomas Was Alone?

by Bithell Games

4 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 3 hours and 5.5 hours

Thomas Was Alone among the 220 puzzle platformers here

The whole tier list
CPlayed tier

#158

of 220

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

27%
got past 2 hours
−13 on the kind's 41%
1%
past 20 hours
−3 on the kind's 3%
51%
launched it
−8 on the kind's 59%
151
libraries own it
1 in 17 of the 2,519 read here
Thomas Was Alone ↓
#1 Portal 2#220
49% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

Does Thomas Was Alone hold up?

Holds steady

Holds up seal

At least 94% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 20 hours played.

Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.

Do the first two hours of Thomas Was Alone tell you?

In the first two hours84%recommend it

After that96%recommend it

6 in 100 said no: 3 after the window had closed, 3 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 4 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 3 hours and 5.5 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 9,400 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It holds steady: between 95% and 98% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

17% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 84% of those recommend it. After the window, 96% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 57% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 2.5 hours in.

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When would you get there?

4days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 4 hours on Wednesday, November 18.

Half of its reviewers had played between 3 and 5.5 hours: Nov 17 to Nov 20 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in Thomas Was Alone?

The filter

The Hero Thomas Needs

24 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Be There or Be... and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Be There or Be...Begin 'Array'.−694% hold it
  3. The Hero Thomas NeedsBegin 'Origin'.Filtered −2470% hold it
  4. I'm Rubber, You're GlueBegin 'Associations'.−1060% hold it
  5. DerezzedBegin 'Purge'.−1347% hold it
  6. ViridianBegin 'Invert'.−641% hold it
  7. Winter is ComingBegin 'Itterate'.−338% hold it
  8. Tighten Up the Graphics on Level 3Begin 'Design'.−137% hold it
  9. Electric BoogalooBegin 'Generation'.−235% hold it
  10. Up, and to the RightBegin 'Y+1, X+1'.35% hold it
  11. Thomas Was Not AloneFinish the game.−332% hold it
How this is counted

94% of the players who launched Thomas Was Alone hold Be There or Be..., its first story achievement on Steam, and 32% hold Thomas Was Not Alone, its last. The steepest drop comes between Be There or Be... (94%) and The Hero Thomas Needs (70%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is Thomas Was Alone worth it?

Is Thomas Was Alone worth it? Mostly.

  • Fair price

    About what a typical puzzle platformer charges: $2.50 an hour

  • Loved

    96% recommend it after the refund windowmost puzzle platformers: 90%

  • Usually played

    51% of owners here have played itmost puzzle platformers: 62%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $9.99, the typical player's 4 hours come to $2.50 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 96% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of Thomas Was Alone costs about what the typical one of 236 puzzle platformers here charges $2.86.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (puzzle platformers) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Where can I play Thomas Was Alone today?

Almost anywhere

PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One and 2 more.

  1. PS32013
  2. PS Vita2013
  3. todayPC2013
  4. Wii U2014
  5. todayPS42014
  6. todayAndroid2014
  7. todayiPhone2014
  8. todayXbox One2015in Instant Indie Collection: Vol. 1
  9. todaySwitch2021
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Thomas Was Alone came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.

Would you like Thomas Was Alone?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Thomas Was Alone, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Thomas Was Alone would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

@ravage holds this page

  1. 1st@ravage5.3 h
  2. 2nd@attila-the-heather4.5 h
  3. 3rd@poor-leno47 min

Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

What did people here do with Thomas Was Alone?

  • 1 in 303

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

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  2. 2

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How this is counted

Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Thomas Was Alone: a kind of game it is that Thomas Was Alone is not, a feature its tags carry that Thomas Was Alone's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.

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