Forgive Me Father
Skip · Shooter · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.2h
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Next sale
- Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($9.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 75% ($4.99)
- Last discount ended
- yesterday
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
Forgive Me Father is a dark retro horror FPS set in a comic book style world inspired by the novels of H.P. Lovecraft. As the only one left with full senses, you begin a journey in search of answers and relief. How long can you last?
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 $4.99. That was December 2025. It has been discounted 43 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended yesterday.
Value puts it in the top 37 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, CULTIC ($9.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Forgive Me Father 2 ($24.99, scores 38).
74 from critics against 84 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 10 percent of players ever finish it. On a 7.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 17 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 596 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
At 7.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
42% start to 10% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
About 61 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Looks good, sounds good, doesn't do much wrong. I like the fast pace, the boss fights and the option to quit to desktop after finishing a level. There are a couple bugs that may have you restart a level, but other than that it's alright. 100% achievement completion means beating two playthroughs (one with each character), finding a couple secrets and surviving 20 waves in endless mode. Difficulty is optional...
I mean it's a comic book style Eldritch horror boomer shooter. That's all the sell you'd ever need. Get gun, drink booze, kill monster.
Art 8/10 Music 8/10 But many times devs forget that a good game relies on a good gameplay, the gameplay is 1/10 Bad level design, bad mechanics, the code is barely holding the game together, I get that people are enjoying the game because it feels like a good boomer-shooter, but even for what it aims the game fails enemy AI, movement and combat feels off, not polished and they do not have any synergy neither any...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Forgive Me Father scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1590910/forgive-me-fatherReviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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