Mothmen 1966
Fair · Narrative · 2022
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.7h 2h to 100%
- Value
- $5.29/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 329 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.96 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
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
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 29 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 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 9 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Death and Taxes ($1.68, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats The Casting of Frank Stone™ ($29.99, scores 6).
More about Mothmen 1966
Steam's global achievement data puts 45 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 295 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 132 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
86% start to 45% 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
What players say
Mothmen 1966 is a beautiful, pulpy visual novel with some minor gameplay elements added to it. The story is fun, pulpy, and a bit spooky. It leans into the cryptid theme and gets the vibes just right! The 80s style pixel art is stunning and even though the game is set in the 60s, it still manages to help evoke the feeling of a time gone by. It almost feels like stumbling on a random game from your dads collection of...
2 more reviews
Interesting visual novel with an intriguing story, art and atmosphere. The ending was a bit abrupt and lacked a real emotional punch. It felt quite anti-climactic.
my only critique of this game is it's too short. i love the presentation and feel of it but it was over just when it was getting good. more please!
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mothmen 1966 scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1755030/mothmen-1966Reviews 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.