Family curse
Fair · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.3h 1.4h to 100%
- Value
- $5.38/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 245 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.69 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Family curse is a mystical horror from the first person with a frightening atmosphere. Immerse yourself in the intricate history of the Crouse family and find out the terrible secret of the people who died in the cursed house.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 1060 3GB or similar, 13 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 30 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 ($8.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Gray Dawn ($19.99, scores 46).
More about Family curse
Of the 222 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 118 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 53 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
80% start to 60% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 09:57 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Decent game to buy on sale and play in 1 session. With the puzzles feeling like they took the longest, the game was done in 88 minutes. Had a few decent jumpscares, good atmosphere, good room design and story, similar to infliction the house itself has way more to it than you would think. ex. you walk into a room and you are in a completely different place sort of thing. Not bad, i would give it a 7/10 considering...
2 more reviews
In Family Curse, you'll explore two houses and a bit of outside area. While using stock assets, gfx are still pretty decent and everything has a good horror vibe to it. There's only a very little amount of jump scares and they are all good. There's a bit of everything: objects to interact with, a bit of puzzling, a roaming monster, lots of gore and even some otherworldly sceneries. The story itself was of course...
Family Curse, developed and published by Stork Game, is a psychological horror adventure that draws players into a chilling and atmospheric journey through the dark secrets of the Crouse family. From the moment you step into the dilapidated family mansion as David Crouse, the protagonist, the game crafts an unsettling mood that lingers throughout the experience. Released in 2023, the title has been praised for its...
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Cite this score
Family curse scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2166640/family-curseReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.