Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $0.82/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
A new breed of WARRIOR returns, committed to destroying the enemies of FREEDOM When ONE angry man, has a world to protect - There is only ONE future – HIS OWN No-nonsense hero Marlow never shied away from danger or trouble. But now he faces his ULTIMATE challenge.
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
The value story
June 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 46 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Devil's Hunt ($14.99, scores 1) and BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut ($14.99, scores 41) both come in lower.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 373 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 506 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
87% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 07:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Groundbreaking: an axe-throwing demigod with anger issues fights monsters while a small companion narrates his feelings. Combat feels lifted wholesale, the story beats hit every checkpoint you've seen before, and the "epic" boss fights forget to bring their own identity. Competent, forgettable, painfully derivative.
Basically like an indie version God of War but very short game and very easy achievements with guide.
This is a hack and slash game that makes fun of the hack and slash genre so I really enjoyed it and thought it was a great time BUT the story is pretty whatever. The gameplay is very fun while being non-stop and there are some cool bosses with the final one being the only one to give me a real fight but the platforming in really really bad, mostly due to the camera which makes some areas really annoying to get...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/249680/marlow-briggs-and-the-mask-of-deathReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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