The Procession to Calvary

The Procession to Calvary

Worth it · Narrative · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.10.

Length
2.4h
Value
$4.16/hr
Reviews
97% positive
It needs 29% off ($7.10) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
2.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
3.3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.16
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
97%
1,559 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
78
critic score
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews97% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 96% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement36% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.16/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length2.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 332 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was August 2026. 55 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 55 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $7.10 BANGER line 50 times.

Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Four Last Things ($9.99, scores 73) and Lost in Play ($19.99, scores 66), are both worse buys on this math.

Critics scored it 78. Players sit 19 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

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. 1 of the 332 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 140 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

59% start to 36% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam 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

5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 20:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Beautiful art, hilarious story, and absolutely bonkers NPC interactions that had me chuckling to myself throughout. It's a fun, wonderfully wacky journey from start to finish.
LunaBalloonaRecommendedafter 1.6h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I've always been quite interested in art, and I happened to see this series of games on sale, so I casually picked one up. Besides the game's fun and interesting puzzles, what I enjoyed the most was the museum section, where you can click on each painting to appreciate it. I think this part is especially interesting for players who enjoy art. In addition, some of the dialogue in the game is quite humorous and witty...
VicMaRecommendedafter 2.6h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I'm glad a lot of people liked it but it wasn't for me. The puzzles were so convoluted I had to use a guide for most of it. They didn't make logical sense to me. There were funny parts, and the art direction was nice, but at the end of the game I felt more pissed that I wasted my time trying to get to the ending than I did satisfied that I finished it. And I got the 3 different endings. I would recommend this to...
racaabiNot recommendedafter 3.8h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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The Procession to Calvary scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1071130/the-procession-to-calvary
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Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+19
Critics
78
Players
97
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 1,559 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperJoe Richardson
PublisherAkupara Games
GenreNarrative
Released2020
Achievements21