The Darkest Tales
Skip · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 22, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.3h
- Value
- $2.74/hr
- Reviews
- 71% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($7.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 75% ($4.99)
- Last discount ended
- 17 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 960, 11 GB of storage. Windows only.
When a nightmare creeps into reality, the only ones that can help are those whose magical powers we’ve believed in since childhood. A brave teddy bear heads to the far side of “happily ever after” to rescue his owner, Alicia.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in June 2026. 42 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 66 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. The Darkest Tales — Into the Nightmare (free, scores 64) and Greak: Memories of Azur ($3.99, scores 53) both outscore it.
Of the 512 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
At 7.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
81% start to 7% 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
I do not know who this awkward, broken, lost-in-translation, eurojank game is for. It is far too difficult for kids (even on Easy) and way too goofy for adults. I finished it out of spite and laughed through most of the latter parts until the uneventful and predictable ending.
The only good thing about this game is its setting. You will be fighting famous Grimm's Fairy Tale characters but they are evil. Combat is serviceable but to heal you need to hold R is very bad design. I don't like that when you hit the enemy instead of them getting knockback it's you who get's knocked away who thought of this as a good design, don't reinvent the wheel and make it worse. You cant rebind some moves...
I had fun with this. The dark twists on classic stories, the story overall really was good in the campiest of ways. Lots of upgrades to find and some good looking visuals. Recommended
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Darkest Tales scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1307690/the-darkest-talesReviews 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 1, price as of Oct 2.
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