The Wild Case
Fair · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.05. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.5h 2.2h to 100%
- Value
- $2.03/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 257 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
The Wild Case is a 2D first-person point-and-click adventure. In this story-focused adventure, players meet a cast of colorful characters, experience mysterious encounters, and solve puzzles to progress through the game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
62 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $3.05 at 66 percent off still sits 13 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 79 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 ($8.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Creepy Tale 2 ($9.99, scores 57).
More about The Wild Case
This site sampled 228 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026.
The drop-off
78% start to 22% 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
What players say
Some give thumbs down on this game because it is a "trail of errands"....but that is exactly why I liked it, as that's what escape rooms are and I always loved doing those too. Superior graphics (akin to the Syberia/Myst genre), humorous interactions with the locals (smith, moonshiner, butcher, etc.) and a mystery of the red eyed forest creatures to solve all make for a highly enjoyable experience. Other games from...
2 more reviews
Nice little P&C game to pass 2-3 hours with. Nice drawings and atmosphere, decent story in a rural russian village, okay animations for this genre. There aren't really any puzzles here to solve tho, you just have to use common knowledge and basic logic to progress, like put X and Y together, oil the rusted lock etc.
Lovely little game, interesting story, beautiful art! A little too short and easy for my taste, I would gladly buy a DLC or a follow-up story!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Wild Case scores 65/100 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/1178230/the-wild-caseReviews 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 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.