Dry Drowning
Skip · Narrative · 2019
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$13.66Fair
- Length
- 8h 14.7h to 100%
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 518 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.66 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
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4400, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 86 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure ($15.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Scene Investigators ($24.99, scores 27).
More about Dry Drowning
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 308 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026.
The drop-off
43% start to 26% 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
Dry Drowning is a stylish, atmospheric visual novel with meaningful choices, great presentation, soundtrack, and strong writing. The puzzle elements are a bit thin, but if you're here for narrative tension, moral dilemmas, and a moody cyber-noir world, it delivers.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I love that the settings and the characters get progressively worst. I think I got the worst/bad ending too. Yippee. I love that the story touches on realistic and hard topics that usually are glazed/babied on other similar games/media. A lot of times some of the dialogues got me thinking and relate like.. im very sure the writers here have lived under extremely corrupt government as well (I am Indonesian here I...
This game is not enjoyable. Let me explain: All choices you make, no matter how selfless or selfish they are portrayed as in the moment, will always have a negative that makes you regret the choice. Stop the bad guy? Someone dies! Do the right thing and save a life? Someone else dies! I suppose that its trying to be some kind of meta-commentary on current events and how our world is moving but...I play games to...
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Cite this score
Dry Drowning scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1077970/dry-drowningReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.