Castle of Illusion
Fair · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Next sale
- Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 75% ($3.74)
- Last discount ended
- 28 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne email when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI 2600/Nvidia 8600 (minimum), 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Mickey Mouse returns to star in Castle of Illusion, a fantastical reimagining of the Sega Genesis classic.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.24. That was September 2016. 72 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sonic Mania ($19.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Sonic Origins ($29.99, scores 34).
Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 500 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 16 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 765 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
75% start to 23% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
About 14 players at once, as of Sep 6.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Castle of Illusion scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/227600/castle-of-illusionReviews 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 6, price as of Sep 25.
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