Loretta

Loretta

Fair · Narrative · 2023

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3h 5.1h to 100%
Value
$5.00/hr
Reviews
92% of 453 positive
It needs 48% off ($7.73) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.73 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
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$5.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 335 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

Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

29 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 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 14 percent on value. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Adventure Escape Mysteries (free, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Erica ($11.99, scores 40).

More about Loretta

The press gave it 75; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.

This site sampled 335 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to August 2026.

The drop-off

87% start to 12% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

A dark, creepy piece of southern gothic that exploits with great ambition its genre trappings to great success. Loretta is a darkly inviting tale of complicity, whose symbolism and themes are subtle yet poignant, making an unassumingly unsettling experience fueled by its great atmosphere and macabre characters - characters whom you would feel hard-pressed not to relate. Not all of its mechanics are nearly as...
jslews4Recommendedafter 5.5hJun 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Loretta is a psychological thriller developed by Bonereaders and published by DANGEN Entertainment that delivers a dark, emotionally charged narrative centered on betrayal, resentment, and personal freedom. Set in the turbulent years following World War II, the game places players in the role of a woman whose life has become defined by disappointment and isolation. Rather than focusing on traditional heroics or...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 11hJun 2026Read on Steam
The game itself is great but not having a manual save option is extremely frustrating. Also, my screensaver came up and when I brought the game back up, I could not get the game to progress so I had to go back to the main menu and hit continue. Obviously I had to start over from my last save point. No option to turn off controller vibration. A great game ruined by terrible development Also the mini games are awful...
KittyNot recommendedafter 4.7hJun 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Loretta scores 57/100 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/1592540/loretta
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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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+17
Critics75
Players92
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 453 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBonereaders
PublisherDANGEN Entertainment
GenreNarrative
Released2023
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements22