Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure
Skip · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 6.4h
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI X1800 or better, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
In Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure, Maxwell unites with Batman™, Superman™ and the rest of The Justice League™ to restore order to the DC Comics Universe. Challenge your imagination as you battle the mightiest villains in an exciting, action-filled adventure through GOTHAM CITY™, METROPOLIS™, ATLANTIS™ and other iconic...
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in September 2025. 82 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 25 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Scribblenauts Unlimited ($19.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Streamer Life Simulator ($19.99, scores 38).
68 from critics against 80 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
2 of the 471 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 328 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
70% 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
Players
6 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
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Scribblenauts is a fun game that challenges you to solve puzzles in almost every and anyway possible. Playing Unmasked I've even learned more about the DC universe. The ability to create your own hero and summon a wide range of DC heroes is cool! I will say some of the puzzles can get frustrating when the game gives you hints that don't seem obvious. Also there are timed events that don't give you any time to get...
This is tough, as it's the only other Scribblenauts game on Steam you can buy. Definitionally, it is more Scribblenauts, but if you want more GOOD Scribblenauts, you'll have to look elsewhere. Moving away from doing sub-missions for Starite Shards, you now have worlds filled with procedurally generated missions that randomly spawn in, which you do for currency to open other gated worlds. Right away, this was a big...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/249870/scribblenauts-unmasked-a-dc-comics-adventureThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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