The Innsmouth Case
Skip · Narrative · 2020
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 16, under the fair line, at $1.24.
- Length
- 1.2h 8.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.03/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 207 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
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
The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 260 GTS or Radeon HD 4850 - 512 MB of VRAM or equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 66 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.24 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Oxenfree ($9.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats The Casting of Frank Stone™ ($29.99, scores 6).
More about The Innsmouth Case
73 on Metacritic, 64 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
Finishing takes 1.2 hours; clearing it takes 9, which is 7.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
17% start to 4% 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
The Innsmouth Case, developed by RobotPumpkin Games and published by Assemble Entertainment, is a visual novel adventure inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's iconic seaside nightmare, but it chooses an unexpected and refreshing direction-dark comedy. Rather than strictly imitating the bleak cosmic horror associated with Innsmouth, the game reimagines the setting through a humorous, absurdist, and occasionally satirical...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
First look is nice and atmospheric, somewhat interesting start, it catches by a glimpse of mystery. However later it turned out to be mixed with comedy gold stuff. "Pretend to be deaf" - option in dialogue as we talk right now LOL So I just saw that, laugh at, and clicked it, for it's stupidity haha and now "ummm okay we are the deaf detective". Moving on, the person noticed that I'm fraud pretending that and guess...
Far too short for me to really enjoy and I don't really want to go through the story a dozen times doing weird or silly stuff to unlock every ending.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Innsmouth Case scores 16/100 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/1231950/the-innsmouth-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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.