Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth
Skip · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 22, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.43/hr
- Reviews▼
- 68% of 3,385
- Critics
- 76 players 8 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 72% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 11.6h
- To 100%
- 16.6h 1.4x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 73 on record
- Typical cut
- 67% off
- Steam low
- $1.24 June 2017
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 8 now
- Cheaper than
- 72% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 23% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
73 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 67 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Metro 2033 Redux ($19.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Alone in the Dark (2008) ($9.99, scores 0).
More about Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 76 against 68 percent.
4 of the 702 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, 53 percent of the 641 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.64 (67% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
Awesome game. Needs a community patch to run well (and not crash) on modern hardware but honestly so worth it. Some people say the game starts well and drops off hard, I think they couldn't be more wrong. Environments are well crafted, storytelling is great and the action is serviceable, fun even. I really like the quite unique player damage + healing system, its a nice touch. Special mention of course to the sanity...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
man, this game is so tedious. It doesn't even know what it wants to be, but I just can't bring myself to give it a thumbs down
Don't get the steam verison, its super buggy, and will crash a lot. Its so bad that the game is almost impossible to finish without outside fixes. But still a great game set in the Cthulhu mythos.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a first-person horror game that combines intense action and adventure elements.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, DirectX 9.0 3D compliant Video Card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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-earthReviews 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 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.