Anglerfish
Fair · Action · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.6h 5.6h to 100%
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 290 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
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About the game
The game only saves when you die. Every time you die, something changes. Every change is based on where and how you died. Go on an epic adventure only equipped with your trusted shotgun, your wit and your strong stomach for disturbing exploration. Can you survive a night at the bar, Anglerfish?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: TBA, 410 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 35 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Butcher's Creek ($9.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Hamster Hunter ($4.99, scores 46).
More about Anglerfish
This site sampled 271 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 2.6 hours; clearing it takes 6, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
What players say
A wild adventure from front to back, it always disappoints and saddens me that it never found its community but it truly was a masterpiece of storytelling and horror
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
By the end, this game basically felt like a relationship and good love is about creating small surprises in the ordinary, day after day（i sound like a 80 yearold On the third run, it set up this fake competition, as if the player stayed because they wanted to beat them. But I only kept coming back to this endless loop cuz it was just so cute and fun to be around the early part of my first run was really frustrating...
enjoyed the game. however, if you think about buying it, please keep in mind this is not a finished product. you won't see this information on store page but the "true ending" to the game is yet to be patched in, which you learn through a cutscene with game creators cheekily telling you how no games are fully finished upon release date. true enough. although i think at the very least, most games are narratively...
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Cite this score
Anglerfish scores 51/100 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/1613670/anglerfishReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.