Gloomwood
Fair · Shooter · 2022 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. A BANGER at $5.18, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2022 (lowest $13.99, Dec 2025).
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.84/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 8,531
- Genre rank
- Top 24% Shooter
Holding it back: Early access, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.18 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.2h
- To 100%
- 17.7h 3.4x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 36 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $13.99 December 2025
- Sale every
- 32d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 40 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 36 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 5 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $5.18, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Its score puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SCP: Fragmented Minds ($9.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Into the Radius 2 ($39.99, scores 34).
More about Gloomwood
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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
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...
2 more reviews
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...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 960 Or Equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Gloomwood scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.