The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Fair · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$9.8967% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.00/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 11,104
- Genre rank
- Top 22% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.89 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6h
- To 100%
- 20.3h 3.4x the story
- Finish
- 15% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 30
Price and sales
- Sales
- 33 on record
- Typical cut
- 67% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 February 2026
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 86 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
78% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 33 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 67 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope ($19.99, scores 40) and The Quarry ($59.99, scores 38).
More about The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to November 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,628 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 970 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 277 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This is the best one in the series. If you only buy one, buy this one. Most unique setup imo, best characters and character interaction, satisfying choice payoffs. I think it says something that this is the only one in the series that I think has a better ending when one of the characters doesn't live (and not because they're bad). The only one I've played twice and might play again. You could say it's not as scary...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
House of Ashes - Finally, The Dark Pictures Gets It Right After Man of Medan and Little Hope, I was starting to wonder whether this series was more interested in pretending to be a horror movie than actually delivering a good one. Then House of Ashes came along and reminded me why I kept playing. The biggest improvement is simple: the story actually kept me interested. The setting does a lot of heavy lifting...
At a discounted price, this game is worth it; the story and the events themselves are good, though the details are open to debate. Some conversations feel incomplete or are programmed in a strange way, which is a major distraction during gameplay-especially since these interactions are an integral part of the experience. The secrets and hidden items are well-placed-neither too easy nor too difficult to find. The...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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-ashesReviews 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 16, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.