Edge of Sanity
Skip · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 12.1h
- Value
- $1.65/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 246 positive
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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
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About the game
Set in the unforgiving lands of Alaska, Edge of Sanity is a Cthulhu-inspired, 2D survival horror game. Uncover a disturbing story while madness claws at your mind. Lead a group of survivors and explore, scavenge and survive together - against untold eldritch horrors.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX compatible graphics, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 21 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 46 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, They Breathe ($1.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs ($19.99, scores 20).
More about Edge of Sanity
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 12.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
91% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 18:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I abandoned this game. I ultimately think it's worth supporting and buying if you know what it has to offer and you're still interested, and I want to encourage more indie Lovecraftian games, so in the end I am marking this as recommended. The game can be fun. It's got great art. Great atmosphere. The story is interesting enough but has a limited scope. The gameplay is serviceable but repetitive and the slow pacing...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Still early in the game, but what we have here is a 2d platformerish type game that has some slight Inside vibes with Lovecraftian horror. It has a crafting system and different ways to deal with enemies, stealth, direct melee throwing weapons. The melee ones have a durability system and when worn completely, they break, but can be repaired with the right unlockable recipe. There is also a trauma system, as you...
Nope - Work your ass off till chapter 3 and then you get to start all over again on your resources...so dumb No boss fights the entire game and then at the end wouldn't ya know it, there's a boss fight with a few mechanics with some of the worst combat in a game...then BAM abrupt ending Story line is pretty OK & i think the art style is great. Huge bonus that it has voice actors. Probably wouldn't have finished it...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Edge of Sanity scores 31/100 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/1897110/edge-of-sanityReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.