Palmyra Orphanage
Fair · Short indie · 2019
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Paranormal first-person horror, which takes place in an abandoned orphanage. Walk through the corridors of your childhood, but do remember that you're not only one here.
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 $4.01, set in September 2020. It has been discounted 68 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 21 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mists of Aiden ($6.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Granny ($7.99, scores 62).
Of the 335 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 209 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Palmyra Orphanage scores 65/100 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/1085160/palmyra-orphanageReviews 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 1.
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