Occult
Skip · Action · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Reviews
- 71% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($3.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($2.49)
- Last discount ended
- 35 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB Video RAM, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Occult is a dynamic cooperative game with elements of horror and quest. You are waiting for a variety of opponents, puzzles and endings!
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in March 2026. 35 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Boo Men ($5.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Sign of Silence ($4.99, scores 0).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. Of the 735 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 26 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 484 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 560 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
86% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Occult scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1644490/occultReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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