Pumpkin Eater
Fair · Short indie · 2021
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.5h 0.5h to 100%
- Value
- $3.98/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 620 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.37 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
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About the game
Pumpkin Eater is a visual novel about grief, pumpkin heads, and human decomposition. 100% medically accurate.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX or OpenGL compatible card, 164 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 24 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 ($8.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike ($4.99, scores 61).
More about Pumpkin Eater
Of the 371 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 555 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 97 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
98% start to 91% 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
Every bit of this game is so nice especially the accurate scintific way of how a body would decompose if not buried. Learned alot too, this would stick with me 10/10.
2 more reviews
Took me about 73 minutes to finish the game (Without reading out loud or recording a gameplay) I really love the music in the game, it really set up the mood of the story and watching everything unfold was nicely paced in my opinion. I highly recommend it if you want a dark/horror visual to play in less than 2 hours. (and it didnt have any jumpscares, so that was more easy for me to handle.) I also enjoyed the...
Disturbing and tragic but well written story of a family. Nice game because it's scientifically accurate. I've learnt a lot about body decomposition too. I wouldn't recommend it to sensitive people tho.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pumpkin Eater scores 62/100 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/1805930/pumpkin-eaterReviews 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.