Gloomwood
Fair · Shooter · 2022 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $5.19, only fair at $14.99.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $2.88/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 960 Or Equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.
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
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $13.99. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 34 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $14.99 at 25 percent off still sits 7 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history. No sale on record has reached $5.19, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
This sale is doing real work. 61 at list, 66 today.
Value puts it in the top 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Prey ($29.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats CONVRGENCE ($14.99, scores 48).
12 of the 671 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 983 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
5.2 hours to finish it, 18 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Players
About 39 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I'm a doctor trying to save the city from disease. I shot and killed all of the infected people I could find. Hippocratic Oath be damned, the devs gave me a shotgun. fr review: I have ~21 hours played, I have ~11 hours on my save. I've spent nearly half my time playing this game on a save that I ended up dying in. However, I chose to start on Full Moon difficulty so idk. I was on the highest graphics and I ran...
Gloomwood, the flawed masterpiece... This game describes itself as a stealth/immersive sim game, and it mixes them together so well into an at times horrifying experience of the Victorian era. If you want the short review, buy the game right now and stop reading here. This is the extended review. Gloomwood has some of the best integration of game mechanics, even for a game still in development. There is practically...
Gloomwood is an extremely fun Survival Horror/Immersive Sim. I've picked up and put down this game numerous times since I bought it in 2023, and have enjoyed it every single time. Whenever I "didnt finish it" it was because I had other things get in the way. Now that I finally had time to sit down and play through the game start to finish, from the fishery to the early portions of Hightown, I can truly settle on the...
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Cite this score
Gloomwood scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1150760/gloomwoodReviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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