Mask of the Rose
Skip · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.8h 19.1h to 100%
- Value
- $2.56/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 404 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
A marvellous romance with a hint of murder, where every playthrough is different! Seek love, friendship, or more... intimate encounters. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DX10, DX11, DX12 capable, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 21 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 41 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Haven ($9.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Dragon Age™: The Veilguard ($59.99, scores 18).
More about Mask of the Rose
Of the 258 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 7.8 hours; clearing it takes 19, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
85% start to 2% rarestNo 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
What players say
Very fun mystery/romance visual novel with a Victorian apocalypse setting <3 It is a little short, but there are enough different paths, relationships, and story threads to make it feel worth it. The writing and characters are the main draws, and the world is fascinating, gothic, weird, funny, romantic, and unsettling all at once. I loved getting to experience the Fallen London setting through a VN - the original...
2 more reviews
So...as someone that has played Fallen London, as well as Sunless Seas and Sunless Skies? If you like visual novels, play Mask before you play any of the others. Mask is a good "introduction" to the verbose STRANGENESS of the setting in a more textually accessible way, without quite so much purple prose as the other games. Art? Good. Story? Good. Does it necessarily hold up compared to its 'cousins' in the genre...
A strange and delicious game! This wasn't really what I expected from a dating sim, but nothing fallen London ever offers is ever quite what I expect, is it? I found that I enjoyed it the most when roleplaying my character as a proper menace of Fallen London, flirting with everybody, lying ceaselessly about who I used to be up above, entangling myself with every horror I could find. When you make it to the strange...
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Cite this score
Mask of the Rose scores 34/100 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/1769980/mask-of-the-roseReviews 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.