Call of the Sea
Fair · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.6h
- Value
- $3.57/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 7750, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 or Equivalent, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Join Norah, a woman plagued by a mysterious illness, in her search for her missing husband in this adventure puzzle game set on a lush island paradise. Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and unlock forbidden secrets in a moving tale of mystery and love.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in April 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 58 in the 6 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Marie's Room (free, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Dear Esther: Landmark Edition ($9.99, scores 28).
78 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 36 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 215 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
At 5.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
91% start to 36% 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
Players
12 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 01:03 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
this game is quite amazing. I like the visual style a lot. Puzzles were fun to solve. Also the story was unusual for lavcraft type of stories so the plot is really nice too.
It's short, it's pretty easy as puzzles go, but it's very well done. Art is beautiful, voice acting is very good, and the story is bitter sweet. What's not to love?
I feel like I wanted to give it a 4/5, with some parts a 5/5, but it kept losing points, slowly but surely. The story is the best thing about this. The puzzles are fun, for the most part. Some are easy, some are made hard by one of the most annoying things - slow walking. For the entirety of the game you walk like a snail - this gives quite a few hours of extra gameplay, but it's so frustrating. Running is an option...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Call of the Sea scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1042490/call-of-the-seaReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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