Lucius
Fair · Action · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $1.64/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1.5 GB of memory, NVIDIA 8600 Series or ATI equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Equipped with supernatural powers, take control of Lucius as he begins his blood filled tour of horror through his own house.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was August 2015. 126 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 85 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Amnesia: The Dark Descent ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Lucius II ($19.99, scores 8).
59 from critics against 81 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 1,470 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6.1 hours; clearing it takes 40, which is 6.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
77% start to 5% 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
20 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
Super unique horror concept where you play as the son of the Devil! Setting up stealthy, bloody "accidents" to kill mansion staff using telekinesis and mind control feels really satisfying. However, the puzzles rely heavily on strict trial-and-error, and the clunky controls and camera can be pretty annoying. 7/10
Playing as a demonic 6-year-old making household accidents happen to your family members is delightfully twisted and nostalgic. It can be a little janky and trial-and-error heavy with some of the puzzle solutions, but the spooky atmosphere and dark humor totally carry the experience. A great weekend playthrough for horror fans!
⭐ Overall Rating: 3.5/10 It's an ok game. But it's extremely scripted and oh so so so ♥♥♥ boring. You just have to play it out and don't really have much freedom in killing people at will. The game does give you a handful of sorcery abilities, but again, their usages are scripted too. I'll start off with the story. You play as a nefarious, literal spawn of the devil. You don't have any reason to kill people, but you...
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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Lucius scores 52/100 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/218640/luciusThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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