KARMA: The Dark World
Fair · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$24.99Fair
On its price record
$6.20BANGER
- Length
- 5.8h
- Value
- $4.31/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Intel ARC A580, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
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
It has never been cheaper than $12.99. That was May 2026. It has been discounted 11 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. $6.20 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SOMA ($29.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats The Solus Project ($19.99, scores 49).
Steam's global achievement data puts 46 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 11 of the 667 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 216 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
At 5.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
94% start to 46% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
6 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 10:59 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
When I first saw this game, it reminded me of Observer: System Redux. It has the same atmosphere where everything is weird (like the story) and, most importantly, really good graphics. But it is very different from Observer: System Redux where both have investigation, but this game is all about solving soft puzzles, very lite gameplay which will always change at some point and some stupid puzzles that do not make...
I loved it! I feel like it was more of a cinematic experience than a game. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It takes you down so many twists and turns. Such a fascinating undertone and atmosphere. Really gets in your mind and that is part of the charm. In a sense it's like a metaphor for a fight for your consciousness in the world. I do recommend it if you enjoy these kind of experiences!
Okay hear me out. As someone who absolutely hate horror games this game is fantastic. It's not too hard in terms of gameplay, in fact it is rather relaxing (i know, relaxing in a horror game is definetely a choice). Story is fantastic in my opinion but i get when some people say they don't like it. The atmosphere is great as well, images and the soundtrack (omg). It got a good scare out of me here and there but...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
KARMA: The Dark World scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1376200/karma-the-dark-worldReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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