Abandoned Souls

Abandoned Souls

Skip · Action · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 28, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Length
1.1h 4.8h to 100%
Value
$4.54/hr
Reviews
73% of 402 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $1.99 (60% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 39 days apart.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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

Holding it back
Value$4.54/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews73% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 72% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 364 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Abandoned Souls is a horror game, shown through a GoPro lens. You play as a vlogger who specializes in urban exploration.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, 18 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 36 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Visage ($34.99, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs ($19.99, scores 20).

More about Abandoned Souls

4 of the 364 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 305 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 84 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 1.1 hours; clearing it takes 5, which is 4.4 times the campaign.

The drop-off

87% start to 19% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

Great little horror game. First of all I'll start with the bad: Took me a second to figure out that i had to read the notes to progress as I missed the first note in the hospital. Not for the good: I was really surprised by this game, after the first jump-scare I was just expecting a constant jump-scare fest, but it actually had really good atmosphere and an interesting story. I would totally recommend to anyone who...
AbiRecommendedafter 1.3hDec 2025Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
It's not scary, I'd even say it's a bit boring. Unfortunately, I can't recommend it.
☪🖤♠ BLover ♠🖤☪Not recommendedafter 2.4hApr 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Abandoned Souls scores 28/100 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/2412490/abandoned-souls
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperJustTomcuk
PublisherJustTomcuk
GenreAction
Released2023
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements19