A Plague Tale: Requiem
Fair · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $49.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17h
- Value
- $2.94/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, 4 GB, GeForce GTX 970/Radeon RX 590, 55 GB of storage. Windows only.
Embark on a heartrending journey into a brutal, breathtaking world, and discover the cost of saving those you love in a desperate struggle for survival. Strike from the shadows or unleash hell with a variety of weapons, tools and unearthly powers.
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
It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was May 2026. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 41 in the 4 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 4 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kena: Bridge of Spirits ($39.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga ($49.99, scores 40).
The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
4 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 718 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (boost, cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
83% start to 6% 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
136 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
A masterpiece in storytelling, emotion, and creativity. Truly one of the best games in an era where gaming is supposedly dead
If Innocence felt like a rough draft; clunky pacing, limited sets, and rats that felt more like gimmick-nuisance than threats, then Requiem is the polished masterpiece filled with bigger budget, better acting, and yes, rats that finally earned their place in the game. This game 'almost' took everything wrong from Innocence and turned it into a really great game. I assume it might be the goodwill of their previous...
a great story experience, the characters are so good written with nice events along the game, amazing music, atmosphere and graphics everything were very good, I'm little bothered from the gameplay, I don't like slow based gameplay so this is the thing made me give it 9/10, nice game i recommend it to those who love story games!
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.
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A Plague Tale: Requiem scores 56/100 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/1182900/a-plague-tale-requiemThe 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 18, price as of Sep 24.
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