A Walk in the Dark
Fair · Action · 2013
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.5h 13.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.55/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 389 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 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
In this action platformer you play as a cat, Bast, running through a dark fantasy world. You’ll be running, jumping and sliding with smooth and precise controls designed to make you feel like a cat. But it wont be easy. In the dark you never know what lies in the shadows.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card (shader model 3), 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 83 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($1.19, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap ($19.99, scores 48).
More about A Walk in the Dark
The press gave it 67; the people who bought it give it 80 percent. A 13-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 139 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.5 hours. Doing everything runs 14, 3.0 times as long.
The drop-off
95% start to 4% 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
What players say
6/10 A Girl and Her Cat A Portuguese game, and a good one, if you are into games like Limbo, Nihilumbra, etc... It is certainly not a casual game, far from it, it is hard and challenging, totally not meant to be a relaxing time. I couldn't get past level 95, to be honest. It gets tiring to try hard all the time, but congratulations to everyone who manages to finish it. The soundtrack and the art, on the other hand...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
A Walk in the Dark scores 50/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/248730/a-walk-in-the-darkReviews 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.