Family Mysteries: Poisonous Promises
Skip · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$14.99Skip
On its price record
$4.47Fair
- Length
- 4.1h 4.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.66/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 290 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.47 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Entertaining plunge into the world of debauched elites, alluring women and corrupted cops, where power is the ultimate currency. This is a thrilling introduction to the brand new Hidden Object Game series in the tradition of best police dramas.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
49 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 41 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. On the same math Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek ($14.99, scores 52) and Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala ($14.99, scores 64) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
The drop-off
85% start to 19% 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
This is absolutely the worst game of its kind I have ever encountered. I expected Artifex Mundi to keep up the standard in all their titles, especially since these games don't demand much technically; they only need to replicate the core elements at a decent level to be perfectly fine. But unfortunately, everything fails here: the plot is so embarrassing and sometimes borders on pure parody, where every man...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Family Mysteries: Poisonous Promises scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1225070/family-mysteries-poisonous-promisesReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.