Cthulhu Saves the World
BANGER · RPG · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99.
- Length
- 7.7h
- Value
- $0.39/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible. Windows only.
The lord of insanity, Cthulhu was all set to plunge the world into insanity and destruction when his powers were sealed by a mysterious sorcerer. The only way for him to break the curse is to become a true hero. Save the world to destroy it in an epic parody RPG journey of redemption, romance, and insanity!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.44. That was April 2015. It has been discounted 49 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 67 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DELTARUNE ($24.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Breath of Death VII ($2.99, scores 56).
$6.30 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $2.99.
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 361 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 791 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Should i really review a game in rpgmaker? Theese games are litterally always the same things, and a good story can't save that. Plesure was partially had.
Every game should have a button that allows you to skip random encounters after you've already done x amount of them. Very fun and funny rpg as well!
Bought this game way back when Totalbiscuit(Rest in Peace) did his series of 'WTF is' when this showed up. Loved it when I played it back then with the interesting humor and dialogue. However attempting to play this game was an absolute annoyance as the character sprite moved too fast to get into one block entry ways, NPCs or even the towns themselves. This was the annoyance point where I stopped playing after...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Cthulhu Saves the World scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/107310/cthulhu-saves-the-worldThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 23.
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