Mysteries Under Lake Ophelia
Worth it · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 3h 6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 285 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% 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
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
Relax, and fish in a very strange lake.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Something from like 2008 or later probably.. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 29 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 33 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Shipwrecked 64 ($7.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats A Story About Farting ($1.99, scores 8).
More about Mysteries Under Lake Ophelia
Of the 271 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026.
The main story runs 3 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 2.0 times as long.
At 3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
79% start to 6% 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 looks very cool but the gameplay leaves a lot to be desired. Like others have said, it needed to cook a little longer
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
has good atmosphere but camera/controls do not feel good and the "mystery"/ending was pure nothingness to be hoinest. it is quite cheap so may be worth it to some
The game needed to cook a little longer in the oven before release but from what I looked around the creator was too burnt out on this project and if this was just a free title I really wouldn't care but because I spent money on something that it seems the creator couldn't be bothered see to the end feels like I was swindled. the game really needs that horror tag taken off because I (and some friends) basically...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mysteries Under Lake Ophelia 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/1808130/mysteries-under-lake-opheliaReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.