The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
Fair · RPG · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.9h
- Value
- $1.16/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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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.
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.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was June 2019. It has been discounted 84 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Torchlight II ($3.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II ($14.99, scores 23).
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 says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On a 12.9-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 4 of the 741 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 838 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.
The drop-off
85% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 12.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
38 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
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...
My favorite game genre is RPGs, especially those with long and complicated stories, and that's what I usually play. But sometimes you just want to play something different that's fun but doesn't require any puzzle-solving skills or tactical combat, and this one scratched that itch for me. You're the original Abraham Van Helsing's son and you go back to your father's old vampire-hunting grounds after a letter informs...
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.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). 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-helsingThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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