SPOOKWARE
Fair · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.8h 6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.31/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 804 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
Play through loads of hand-crafted fast-paced microgames based on horror tropes, explore the world of the afterlife and help the skelebros live their death to the fullest.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTS 450, 1 GB | AMD Radeon R7 250, 1 GB, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 28 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 33 percent, about 8 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 15 percent on value. It is cheaper than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Outcore: Desktop Adventure (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Three Heroes ($3.99, scores 23).
More about SPOOKWARE
This site sampled 448 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 146 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
84% start to 4% 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
Although sadly unfinished, SPOOKWARE is an amazing game that deserves all the praise it gets.
2 more reviews
Genuinely my favorite game ever. I am forever upset it didn't meet its monetary goals as its genuinely one of the most charming gameplay experiences I've played in the past decade. I can only hope the devs can get back to it in due time. Everyone deserves to experience this joy of a game.
This game has been abandoned and will never receive a proper ending. However, the content that's there is not all bad and has its moments. If you enjoy the minigame style approach of Warioware you'll get some nice evenings out of this one. The majority of players quits after the 1st chapter, possibly because of a bug; the 2nd chapter just doesn't unlock correctly. There are 4 more chapters that feature different...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
SPOOKWARE scores 53/100 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/1574250/spookwareReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.