Costume Quest
Worth it · RPG · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.45.
- Length
- 5.5h
- Value
- $1.82/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB GeForce 7600GS, Radeon X1600, or Intel HD Graphics, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 74 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $8.45 BANGER line 74 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Costume Quest 2 ($14.99, scores 54) and Stacking ($9.99, scores 53).
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 334 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 201 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
At 5.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
64% start to 27% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This game is definitely a fun time, especially if you like RPGs. A must play on Halloween, Christmas, or any other festive holiday, especially if you want the achievement.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Costume Quest scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/115100/costume-questThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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