The Mermaid Mask
BANGER · Narrative · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $15.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2026.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.58/hr
- ReviewsS
- 99% of 3,178
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Narrative
Score at full price
Score today
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.1h
- To 100%
- 12.5h 1.2x the story
- Finish
- 68% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 21
Price and sales
- Sales
- 4 on record
- Typical cut
- 10% off
- Steam low
- $15.99 November 2026
- Sale every
- 39d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 82 now
- Recent reviews
- 99% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
95% start to 68% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $15.99, set in November 2026. It has been discounted 4 times in the 4 months tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 10 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. Among the games closest to it, Haunt the House: Terrortown ($4.99, scores 68) and Crow Country ($19.99, scores 72) both come in lower.
$17.64 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about The Mermaid Mask
Steam's global achievement data puts 68 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 318 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 10.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
An impossible locked-room murder: Captain Mortuga lies dead beside an ancient cauldron aboard the world’s strangest submarine, crewed by sketchy suspects. A handcrafted point-and-click with sharp humour and tricky puzzles. Dive into the next mystery from the creators of Tangle Tower & Crow Country.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Mermaid Mask scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1696770/the-mermaid-maskReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.