The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
Fair · RPG · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$1.4990% offFair
- Cost per hourA
- $1.16/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 10,270
- Critics
- 72 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 11% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.9h
- To 100%
- 33.3h 2.6x the story
- Finish
- 2% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 95
Price and sales
- Sales
- 85 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 June 2019
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6 now
- Cheaper than
- 22% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 83% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
85% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 85 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Torchlight II ($3.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II ($14.99, scores 23).
More about The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
Critics scored it 72. Players sit 11 points higher at 83 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 3 of the 745 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 840 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
12.9 hours to finish it, 33 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.49 (90% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is a 2013 ARPG by the studio that later made Warhammer Inquisitor Martyr and Prophecy. You play as the eponymous Van Helsing, (frequently mistaken for your more illustrious father Abraham of the original Dracula novel) in the middle of typical rambunctious steampunk adventures with your ghostly companion Lady Katarina. The campaign is surprisingly short, comprising 3...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
So, essentially a boring clone of Diablo. Anything that could be interpreted as a meager attempt at different storytelling falls flat with the simplistic and utterly uninteresting gameplay. Nuff said.
From Isometric Camera: A very atmospheric, dark-fantasy/steampunk action RPG. A Van Helsing game. As a result of my love and appreciation for the genre, the game offers us quite a bit of multitasking: fight, get injured, cast spells, deal critical damage, loot, talk to Katarina, enchant your gear, help people through side quests, disrupt your enemies' preparations, and marvel at the captivating visuals of a...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Put on your wide-brimmed hat, grab your weapons and embark on an incredible adventure in the gothic-noir world of Borgovia, where mad science threatens the fragile peace between monster and mortal.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 8800, Radeon HD4000, Intel HD4000 (min. 512 MB VRAM), 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/215530/the-incredible-adventures-of-van-helsingReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.