Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale
Skip · RPG · 2023
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$17.99Skip
On its price record
$6.90Fair
- Length
- 7.2h 11.3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 414 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.90 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
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About the game
In a third-person RPG detective story, set in Bavaria in 1866, the medical student Valentin Schmidt travels to Wolpertshofen, when a sudden death causes turmoil in the village. Use your skills, find clues and question the villagers to stop the murders.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Radeon RX 590 / GeForce GTX 1660, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
Across all 40 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 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 31 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Contradiction: Spot The Liar ($12.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Telling Lies ($4.99, scores 12).
More about Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 339 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to July 2026.
The drop-off
66% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Thought it would be funny, ended up really liking the game (as a born bavarian, that hasn't lived there since starting uni). Kind of sentimental for me too. 8/10 Schwammerl.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is hilariously funny and the team captured the bavarian culture & humour really well! The game feels like a quirky but intriguing mix of Heavy Rain, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Majora's Mask & the Bavarian "Eberhofer" book/movie series. I really love that decisions have a real impact on the players ability to guide conversations & the outcome of the game. To spice it up they also added D&D style skill checks...
While the game is fun and I was into the story, I've twice now gotten hard crashes of my entire machine while playing the game, not to count the number of game crashes I've had. There's a lot of potential here but it's too buggy to fully enjoy right now
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale scores 40/100 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/1694560/inspector-schmidt-a-bavarian-taleReviews 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.