Shadows Over Loathing
Worth it · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $22.99, a BANGER if it drops to $15.64.
- Length
- 13.2h
- Value
- $1.74/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
- 37% ($14.48)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 42% ($13.33)
- Last discount ended
- 23 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Shadows over Loathing — a slapstick-figure comedy adventure-RPG full of mobsters, monsters, and mysteries.
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
The lowest price on record is $13.33, set in June 2026. 23 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago. Past sales have already crossed the $15.64 BANGER line 10 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, West of Loathing ($10.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ($12.99, scores 77).
82 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 428 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
13.2 hours to finish it, 35 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
41% 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
Players
40 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 00:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
If you enjoy actually solving puzzles with your actual brain, being rewarded for curiosity immensely, and need to decompress and laugh, I highly recommend Shadows Over Loathing.
I enjoyed the 1st game to completion. I would with this, but I've got more enticing things in my queue. Worth the money. Recommended.
This game is great fun. If you liked West of Loathing, you'll love this. Also I appreciate the number of Homestar Runner/Strong Bad jokes that I found hiding in various dialogue options. It really made me smile!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Shadows Over Loathing scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1939160/shadows-over-loathingReviews 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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