The Matriarch
Skip · Multiplayer · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.3h 4.3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 866 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 40 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
Play Hide & Seek in a diabolical convent where everyone is an imposter.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
36 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 6 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 32 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. West Hunt ($9.99, scores 55) and The Jackbox Party Pack 6 ($29.99, scores 62) both outscore it.
More about The Matriarch
27 of the 375 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 795 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 31 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 383 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 53 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
24% start to <1% 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
the game is rly fire i usually dont like online games but this one is something different... the only issue is that there are not too many players and it's really hard to find a game
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The Matriarch is a stealth-based multiplayer party game where you play as Sinners disguised as bots trying to escape a convent while one player hunts as the Matriarch. It's an interesting mix of deception and strategy, with customisation settings and quirky sacrificial mechanics that give it a fun edge. It runs well, even on the Steam Deck. The main issue is the lack of an active player base-most of the time there...
wasted 18zł on this game , I don't suggest buying it to anyone , there are much better games you can buy for less than that
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Matriarch scores 37/100 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/1773180/the-matriarchReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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.