The Crimson Diamond
Fair · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. A BANGER at $5.74, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Aug 2024 (lowest $10.49, Aug 2026).
- Length
- 5.2h 11.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.88/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 696 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.74 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
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
About the game
Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
20 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 20 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $5.74, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Blackwell Legacy ($4.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats VirtuaVerse ($14.99, scores 53).
More about The Crimson Diamond
88 from critics against 97 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
2 of the 322 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026.
5.2 hours to finish it, 11 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
97% start to 4% 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
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 16:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game was wonderful. I kinda dreaded the experience at first because I expected it to be like the Dagger of Amon-Ra, or to a lesser extent The Colonel's Bequest, where you could miss too much stuff, but I actually netted the best ending and a really high score on my first playthrough with not too much google-fu (I'm grieving rn gimme a break I could never FULLY rawdog a game like this). You need patience for...
2 more reviews
It's exactly what it says on the tin, it's an old-school 16-color, text parser adventure game for the modern era. The graphics, gameplay, writing, and audio are all totally on point. However, for those who don't know what they're getting into with this style of game, you can absolutely die randomly and lose tons of progress if you haven't saved recently, and you will definitely need to replay the game multiple times...
Fantastic game by a fantastic developer. Truly a gift of a game, made even more unique and in this day and age of auto-generated, generic generative AI efforts, with no soul and/or identify of it's own. Her next game is near the top of my 1000+ wishlisted games list.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Crimson Diamond scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1098770/the-crimson-diamondReviews 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.