Corpse Party

Corpse Party

Fair · RPG · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
10.1h
Value
$1.48/hr
Reviews
89% positive
It needs 8% off ($13.75) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
10.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
18.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.48
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
89%
1,404 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
71
critic score
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2016

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 64 MB VRAM, 3D accelerator compatible w/ DirectX 9.0c, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Engagement6% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.48/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length10 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 397 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $4.49. That was February 2024. It has been discounted 68 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LISA: The Painful ($19.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Just Ignore Them ($3.99, scores 37).

The press gave it 71; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 397 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 155 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

At 10.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

47% start to 6% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 10.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements

What players say

Despite the lack of CGs in game, and the old-fashioned sprites and artwork, I believe that this game is the best adapted version of the original story. In my not-so-humble opinion, this version beats the 2021 version, mid diff. The reason as to why I believe so, is mainly because of the lack of fan service shoved in your face. The previously mentioned lack of CGs saved my eyes from what could've flashed me in the...
EmilRecommendedafter 24hAug 2026Read on Steam
Blood stains schoolyard halls Ghosts whisper forgotten names Hope fades with each scream
Spooky O_0Recommendedafter 3.6hJul 2026Read on Steam
There's nothing crazy about this game. Looks are okay and story is okay. Pretty similiar to the anime. Bunch of endings and really good music. Regular price is steep taking in consideration the quality of the game. Maybe wait for a sale.
Mad MonkeyRecommendedafter 9.3hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Corpse Party scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/251270/corpse-party
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Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+18
Critics
71
Players
89
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 1,404 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperGrisGris
PublisherXSEED Games
GenreRPG
Released2016
Achievements17