Homicipher
Worth it · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $13.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.59.
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.00/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 8,419
- Genre rank
- Top 6% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.59 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.8h
- To 100%
- 10.1h 3.6x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 13 on record
- Typical cut
- 10% off
- Steam low
- $12.59 December 2024
- Sale every
- 53d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 41 now
- Recent reviews
- 97% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 13 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 10 percent, about 8 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $6.59, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Its score puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Satellite Odyssey: Prologue ($1.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats THRESHOLD ($9.99, scores 49).
More about Homicipher
Of the 563 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 305 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
2.8 hours to finish it, 10 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 30 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
this game is criminally underrated. the way its advertised makes it seem like a highly confusing puzzle and decoding game, but its really not. personally i dont enjoy feeling confused whilst playing games, so i was skeptical to buy it at first, but now i know purchasing homicipher was the best decision i have made in a long time. the only bad thing i have to say about it is that its not long enough!!! i really hope...
2 more reviews
I originally bought Homicipher because I was interested in the language-decoding mechanic and the horror theme, but what really made me stay was the characters. Their personalities, development, and the way they interact with the protagonist ended up being the most memorable part of the game for me. Honestly, this game made me more sad than scared. Some of the endings hit much harder than I expected, especially...
THE visual novel for everyone who had a creepypasta obsession as a kid and never grew out of it (me) such a great horror themed vn
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Homicipher scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2302660/homicipherReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.