HORROR TALES: The Wine

HORROR TALES: The Wine

Skip · Action · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$11.99Skip

On its price record

$5.09Fair

Length
2.9h 3.1h to 100%
Value
$4.13/hr
Reviews
77% of 484 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.09 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

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

Raising the score
Engagement33% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.13/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews77% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 398 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Explore a post-pandemic fictional Mediterranean island and confront your fears! Immerse yourself in a seemingly abandoned city and struggle to find a precious Banydebosc red wine bottle to cure your loved ones. But be aware; your Nemesis is hunting you. Indie Jumpscares included! :D
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 7950, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

50 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, MADiSON ($34.99, scores 47) beats it on value, while it beats We Happy Few ($59.99, scores 37).

More about HORROR TALES: The Wine

Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 398 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026.

The drop-off

71% start to 33% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

Really did not like this one. the entire story is delivered through documents. Because it is an indy game, I understand, but still disappointing and not engaging. The puzzles were repetitive and boring. The enemy is annoying and even more so when you have to try to solve puzzles while being chased. Badly conceived and executed. To the developers credit, an option to turn off the enemy while solving puzzles was...
stevenm_120Not recommendedafter 3.9hDec 2024Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
while the game looks good its very bland and frustrating, the environments are really nice, but its the same puzzle for each chapter and the challenge comes from being chased by a goofy animation in a very enclosed room with very limited stamina
thevexedfroggy1Not recommendedafter 1.7hAug 2024Read on Steam
HORROR TALES: The Wine is a first-person psychological horror adventure developed and published by Carlos Coronado that demonstrates how fear can be created without relying on traditional horror environments. Instead of confining players to dark mansions or abandoned hospitals, the game takes place on a sunlit Mediterranean island devastated by a mysterious pandemic. This unusual setting immediately gives the...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 15hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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HORROR TALES: The Wine scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1340640/horror-tales-the-wine
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Reviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCarlos Coronado
PublisherCarlos Coronado
GenreAction
Released2021
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements21