Malum
Skip · Multiplayer · 2021
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.3h 6.5h to 100%
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 573 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
Malum is the premier C-list horror game. Run from a motely collection of bizarre demons then summon in some guns to turn the tables on them. Best enjoyed with friends.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 450 / AMD equivalent with 2GB+ of Video RAM, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 34 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pacify ($4.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Sign of Silence ($4.99, scores 0).
More about Malum
7 of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to July 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 795 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 219 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 210 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 53 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 1.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 7, 5.0 times as much.
The drop-off
32% start to 2% rarestNo 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
John was the best character by far. He made me realize life is more important than gaming. It's also about finding a dude in a dog suit hot af. Which honestly, is more than I could've asked for from such an amazing game. 10/10 better than GTA 6.
2 more reviews
Weird game, chainsaw wielding rabbits and dummy-thicc leech woman. I became a furry and gunned down my best friend in cold blood, and he slid around the map and the RV.
I enjoyed my time playing Malum with a few friends and appreciated the developers including two tutorial levels to help new players understand the gameplay mechanics. Each map is unique with good atmosphere and different demon behaviours adding some variety. I'd only recommend this if you have a group of friends available to play with and it's good value for the price. You could probably sit through a couple of...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Malum scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1648610/malumReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.