Tormented Souls

Tormented Souls

Fair · Shooter · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$4.9975% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$2.13/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 8,266
Critics
75 players 15 higher
Genre rank
Top 17% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 8% off ($18.32) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
9.4h
To 100%
14h 1.5x the story
Finish
26% reach the ending
Achievements
29

Price and sales

Sales
40 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$0.99 December 2024
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now $4.39 at Fanaticalall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
78 now
Recent reviews
85% 30 days
Cheaper than
16% of its genre
Better reviewed
83% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

82% start to 26% 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

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 40 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 17 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil ($19.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Little Nightmares ($19.99, scores 62).

More about Tormented Souls

Critics scored it 75. Players sit 15 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 16 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 656 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.

At 9.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 6 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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement26% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.13/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds16 of 800 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

What players say

1. my brain is too smooth to solve the puzzles so i always have a guide open 2. the story added some ripples to my brain 3. save your shotgun ammo
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 11hOct 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
I swear to God that one, friggin puzzle... Game needs to be more self contained. Pretty cool, jumpscares are pretty cheap. Enemies are... something. Voice acting. I like to call it the COVID Era of voice acting. Like every game around those years (2019-2021) have the same mid quality. Story, kinda okay I suppose. I mean you can kinda click everything together like halfway through the game, until the game gives you...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 12h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam
A love letter to the survival horror genre. Excellent game. Healing and ammo is scarce, even towards the end of the game. Lots of games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill have the resource management side of the game take a back seat after the first third of the game, but this game does a very good job at pacing how much you're given. You will always have enough if you're looking everywhere, but only just enough...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 14hOct 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Classic survival horror is back! Inspired by the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark series, Tormented Souls modernises with a fresh twist on the fixed perspective adventure - as Caroline Walker investigates the mysterious disappearance of twin girls in a terrifying mansion-turned-hospital.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 550 Ti / Radeon HD 6790 2GB VRAM*, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Tormented Souls scores 67/100 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/1367590/tormented-souls
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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 16, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+15
Critics75
Players90
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 8,266 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperDual Effect
PublisherPQube
GenreShooter
Released2021
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements29