Scarlet Hollow
Fair · RPG · 2021 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$29.99Fair
On its price record
$8.90BANGER
- Length
- 4.2h
- Value
- $7.14/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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
October 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $15.99. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 53 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $8.90, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kindergarten ($4.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats The Casting of Frank Stone™ ($29.99, scores 6).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 402 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 141 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.2 hours. Doing everything runs 38, 8.9 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
88% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 4.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
41 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 07:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is my first time writing a review for any game and I think that's the first thing you should know, about how much I've enjoyed and keep enjoying it. I showed it to my brother after playing only a bit of the first and second chapters, already liking it but unaware yet of just how much I'd end up loving it. Work kept getting in the way. Well, a week later and we've played and talked of nothing else. We are...
I'm somehow 23.4 hours into a, what, 8 hour game? And an unfinished one at that? And I'm 7 concurrent playthroughs in? As someone who has never been super into visual-novel style games, choice-heavy or not, it's really strange to find myself so addicted. Both the writing and the amount of unique art are really impressive, and most of all, the amount of variance in how things can play out is completely nuts. Not to...
I came into this game as a gigantic fan of Slay The Princess. If you liked that game PLEASE play this one. If you're totally new to this studio, play both games! I saw another review label this game as 'pure hubris' on the part of the devs because of just how intricate and reactive the different choices are. Slay the Princess is a superb game, but it pales in comparison in the 'choices matter' department. If you've...
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Cite this score
Scarlet Hollow scores 63/100 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/1609230/scarlet-hollowReviews 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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