The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Fair · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $5.00/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB, 65 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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How to read this
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The value story
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. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SILENT HILL 2 ($69.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope ($19.99, scores 39).
Steam's global achievement data says about 15 percent of players ever finish it. On a 6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,677 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 996 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 273 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
6 hours to finish it, 20 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
78% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
44 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
Лучшая из своей серии, сюжет, екшн, геймплей. Разрабы улучшили камеру, движение персонажей, и в целом контроль камеры адекватный стал, играли квала+мышь, проблем не возникло. Сюжетных твистов тут нет, но сам по себе рассказ хороший. Персонажи классные, каждый мастер своего дела и спец, не играешь за студентов со супер силами, а реально подготовленные люди. Графику тоже подтянули, и порт окей.
Peak. This is for me, what supermassive shouldve focused on more. FULLY commit to the bit. be all kinds of ridiculous, I love it. this game brought back those until dawn feelings, where I was just excited, in awe and thinking about the events constantly.
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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The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes scores 51/100 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/1281590/the-dark-pictures-anthology-house-of-ashesThe 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 19, price as of Sep 24.
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