Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth
Skip · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Reviews
- 68% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, DirectX 9.0 3D compliant Video Card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a first-person horror game that combines intense action and adventure elements.
What drives the score
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.24, set in June 2017. 71 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. 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 7 weeks.
It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Metro 2033 Redux ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Alone in the Dark (2008) ($9.99, scores 0).
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 76 against 68 percent.
4 of the 696 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, 53 percent of the 638 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth scores 18/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22340/call-of-cthulhu-dark-corners-of-the-earthThe 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 4, price as of Sep 24.
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