Nightmare of Decay
BANGER · Shooter · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.3h
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($1.99)
- Last discount ended
- 17 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 10 Compatible graphics, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.
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
The value story
October 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 42 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games closest to it, The Forgotten Ones (free, scores 8) and The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners ($19.99, scores 58) both come in lower.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $6.72. It costs $4.99.
This site sampled 481 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 604 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.3 hours; clearing it takes 10, which is 4.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
65% start to 3% 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
Randomly found this game on the main page of store, saw it was first person horror and figured "Why not, lets buy it, it's dirt cheap anyways". Hoooly smokes, this game is shockingly awesome and fun! Seriously, one of the best indie games (and honestly games in general) I've ever played! Yeah, right from entering the mansion, it's clearly mainly Resident Evil inspired, and bunch of references from other games and...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Nightmare of Decay scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1848450/nightmare-of-decayReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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