The Plague Doctor of Wippra
Fair · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.8h 2.2h to 100%
- Value
- $5.55/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 394 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.90 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
The plague spreads agony and fear in the small town of Wippra. As a plague doctor, you bring healing and relief wherever you can. But ignorance, superstition, and religious zeal make for a deadly threat in this retro medieval medical adventure!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX compatible graphics card, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 46 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Case of the Golden Idol ($17.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Heaven's Vault ($24.99, scores 58).
More about The Plague Doctor of Wippra
The press gave it 75; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 49 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 340 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 111 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
At 1.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
66% start to 49% 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
A short story type point and click game, would recommend if you want a quick game that you can easily get 100% achievments for.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The Plague Doctor of Wippra is a wonderfully atmospheric point-and-click adventure with stunning low-res pixel art and a hauntingly effective soundtrack that together create a genuinely oppressive medieval atmosphere. The story follows a plague doctor navigating superstition and ignorance with real historical grounding, and the puzzle design is mostly logical - I particularly enjoyed the zodiac man puzzle, though a...
The game is enjoiable, the settings and story interesting, but that's about it. I'm not giving lightly this bad review but the whole game feels like a demo, when things starts to get interesting, it is suddently over. About the puzzles, in the beginning they are pretty mechanical but one expects this sorts of games to increase in difficulty. Well that's not the case. It's just the same brainless object hunt till the...
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Cite this score
The Plague Doctor of Wippra scores 60/100 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/1811740/the-plague-doctor-of-wippraReviews 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.