The Wolf Among Us
BANGER · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 8.6h
- Value
- $1.74/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
November 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $3.74. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 87 in the 13 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. The nearest things to it, The Council (free, scores 62) and Puzzle Agent ($4.99, scores 76), are both worse buys on this math.
Critics scored it 85. Players sit 13 points higher at 98 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 60 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 583 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 1,086 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% start to 60% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
116 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
the game is really great the story is interesting and the animations, colors, lighting, and graphics 10/10 for me . The idea of being a judge between people is difficult and stressful. sometimes you feel like you are being unfair, which makes the game more interesting. The choices in the game are also great. Strong and convincing discussions between the characters. highly recommended <3
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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The Wolf Among Us scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/250320/the-wolf-among-usThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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