Havsala: Into the Soul Palace
Worth it · RPG · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $11.99.
- Length
- 3h 3.7h to 100%
- Value
- $4.00/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 669 positive
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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
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
Havsala is an investigative puzzle game with rich storytelling full of historical references and mysticism. Search the room for the clues left behind by the previous reincarnations of a single soul, solve the puzzles and unravel the mystery.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 840M, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 36 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 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 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Procession to Calvary ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Munin ($0.79, scores 63).
More about Havsala: Into the Soul Palace
Steam's global achievement data puts 38 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 350 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
56% start to 38% 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
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 22:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Wonderful art, a short little game but absolutely worth it for the lovers of puzzles.
2 more reviews
I really loved the story, the visuals, and the music. I never got bored while solving the puzzles.
If I could give a neutral rating, I think I would. I like puzzles; this is a puzzle game. I don't mind reading lots of text; this game has lots of text. I like mythology and history; this game has lots of both. But this game is unrewardingly obscure in places. I finally gave in and followed a walkthrough. There were lots of steps that were "yes, that's obvious" but also quite a few steps that were "How did you get...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Havsala: Into the Soul Palace scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1732750/havsala-into-the-soul-palaceReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.