ASYLUM
Skip · Narrative · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$24.99Skip
On its price record
$17.85Fair
- Length
- 8h 9.1h to 100%
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 506 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $17.85 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
An epic supernatural horror adventure and the spiritual successor to cult classic Scratches set in a massive, decaying mental institute. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Films and twisted Euro Horror from the 80s.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce 840M or equivalent, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 15 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 33 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Amanda the Adventurer 2 ($9.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Just Ignore Them ($0.75, scores 37).
More about ASYLUM
The press gave it 66; the people who bought it give it 84 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.
3 of the 364 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026.
At 8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
86% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 21:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
First off, if you have never played a first person point-and-click adventure game then this most likely isn't going to be your cup of tea. It's going to feel old school and sort of clunky. But! If you grew up with the first person point-and-clicks of the late 90s and early 00's, then this is going to feel old school and sort of clunky in the best way! It really feels like something that The Adventure Company...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
There is no doubt that a lot of players will just label this as, "We have Scratches at home." They are not entirely wrong. However, this experience did have me glued to my seat. Yes it can feel like a note-reading simulator at times and the ending itself feels rushed, but by the time the credits rolled, my jaw was wide open. I immediately found myself reconsidering everything that had happened from the very...
The story was decent, but otherwise everything was pretty meh. I kept waiting for something cool to happen but the game was short on action and had little drama.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
ASYLUM scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/230210/asylumReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.