Mandemon
Worth it · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 3.9h 4.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.77/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 373 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $2.69 (10% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 42 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
About the game
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine. Love and hatred blur in the mist. What will you do? Who can you trust? Welcome to a cruel world of deceit and suffering—
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL compatible card, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 37 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 10 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Finding Paradise ($9.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats CaseCracker ($9.99, scores 70).
More about Mandemon
Steam's global achievement data puts 52 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 349 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to July 2026.
The drop-off
58% start to 52% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
This game made me question my ego by getting obsessed with Hayase Honestly, this plot bored me as hell bro, but I must say that it has an interesting twist which made it more interesting. The characters are easily forgettable not you Hayase and Kakitsubata <3 and something that I didn't like was the (at least from my perspective) the forced "romantic" situations between Satomi and Ruriko, besides that, it's a nice...
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The visuals and atmosphere are stunning. The translation is a bit weird, but you'll still manage to understand the story.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mandemon scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2497610/mandemonReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.