Lord Winklebottom Investigates
Fair · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $18.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.6h 5.4h to 100%
- Value
- $4.13/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 239 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.03 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
It’s the 1920s and the world’s foremost detective is about to embark on his most challenging case yet. Thankfully, in this world that’s not quite like our own, there’s nobody better to crack the case than the great detective and gentleman giraffe, Lord Winklebottom.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities., 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 28 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 16 percent on value. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. On the same math Loco Motive ($17.99, scores 72) and The Case of the Golden Idol ($17.99, scores 72) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Lord Winklebottom Investigates
Steam's global achievement data puts 60 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 203 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
88% start to 60% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
It's a nice enough little detective game. It's got some funny moments, good characters, some puzzles (mostly on the easy side), and it all fits nicely together. A few things could have been better (e.g. you get a map, but you can't use it to jump between locations and so there's quite a bit of backtracking on the second half of the game; in modern titles, I would expect this not to happen anymore), and I definitely...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Hahahahahahahahaha!!!! This was excellent. A bit short maybe but well worth the price of admission. Hope there's a sequel at some point!
I have one major gripe about this game. Once it is saved (and it saves automatically), you cannot re-enter a chapter. I have twice reached the lighthouse, both times without the gunpowder needed to continue. And because of this one simple, stupid thing! I have to start all over. It is the most frustrating problem I have encountered. It's a simple puzzle game, and it shouldn't be this unforgiving with its players.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Lord Winklebottom Investigates scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1024160/lord-winklebottom-investigatesReviews 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 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.