At the close of the Iraq War, Special Forces hunting for weapons of mass destruction unearth something far deadlier – a buried Sumerian temple containing a nest of unearthly creatures. To survive the night below, they must forge a brotherhood with their enemies from the world above.
Each input wears a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The color is the direction: green raises the score, red lowers it, grey sits neutral. ▼ marks a dock, ? a missing input. The exact weights stay secret. These are the inputs and the direction each pushes.
Most players never reach the end. On a 6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
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Skip · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableSKIP IT.
Skip it at $29.99. The value isn't there.
about 6h$29.99 (~)
Better value than 77% of Narrative games
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steamBANGERS.com/game/1281590/the-dark-pictures-anthology-house-of-ashes<a href="https://steamBANGERS.com/game/1281590/the-dark-pictures-anthology-house-of-ashes"><img src="https://steambangers.com/api/badge/1281590" alt="BANG Score" width="340" height="80"></a>[](https://steamBANGERS.com/game/1281590/the-dark-pictures-anthology-house-of-ashes)The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It rates value, not taste. Whether it is for you is on you. How the score is computed → Data · updated 3h ago.
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Price line + bands by tier:Worth itFairSkipPrice history via IsThereAnyDeal.
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Daily peak concurrent players.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in February 2026. It has been discounted 31 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 67 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 23 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Quarry ($5.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope ($19.99, scores 27).
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On a 6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.