The Case Book of Arne
Fair · RPG · 2020
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.5h 9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.82/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 370 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.37 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
A vampire and a girl... who are they? The two of them have a secret and solve a strange case... In a world where paranormal activity takes place, "Player" solves a case in which a non-human becomes a suspect. Such a "detective adventure" is coming to STEAM.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Open GL compliant video card, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 47 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats They Breathe ($1.99, scores 58).
More about The Case Book of Arne
None of the 336 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026.
What players say
It is a delightful game that almost plays like a show(with the intro and recap and such). I do hope the developers will continue expanding on the story as I would like to find out more about their backstories and these hearts. The game focuses on the death of the girl's father and who the killer is while adding some hints of darker things that went on. There are three episodes that are split into 'cases' that you...
2 more reviews
I bought and played this game (roughly $12 bundling the base game + DLC) in preparation for the anime, currently airing at the time of writing. In relation to the anime, the entirety of this "Case 1" is adapted in episodes 2-5, with seemingly all other episodes being anime-original. Sadly, it seems that the Interlude DLC was glossed over. The game itself was a fun little murder mystery. Classic set-up: a murder...
The overworld, the controls, and the mini games are very much RPG Maker. However, that does little to dampen the lovely character art and the deeply intriguing story! So much fun, I played it in one sitting! Looking forward to seeing if the anime can do it justice!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
The Case Book of Arne scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1322290/the-case-book-of-arneReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.