Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness

Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness

Skip · Narrative · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a worth-it price before.

Today

$19.99Skip

On its price record

$4.90Worth it

Length
4.7h
Value
$4.25/hr
Reviews
89% positive
It needs 75% off ($4.90) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
80% ($3.99)
Last discount ended
94 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
4.7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
7.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.25
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
89%
204 reviews, as of Sep 30
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness puts your sanity to the test, challenging you to escape a labyrinth of nightmares and torment. Test your mind against a slow burn of puzzles, light survival mechanics, and methodical action.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Value$4.25/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length4.7 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds0 of 134 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

March 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 13 in the 3 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 13 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, A Date in the Park (free, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Silver Chains ($24.99, scores 16).

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

92% start to 47% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1702430/vlad-circus-descend-into-madness
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Reviews 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 30, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIndiesruption
PublisherBlowfish Studios
GenreNarrative
Released2023
Achievements12