Montague's Mount

Montague's Mount

Skip · Narrative · 2013

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 5, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Length
3.4h 6.3h to 100%
Value
$1.47/hr
Reviews
58% of 429 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2113 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

Holding it back
Value$1.47/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews58% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 59% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 19 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

About the game

Montague's Mount is disturbing psychological thriller set in the bleakness of an abandoned Irish island, featuring exploration and challenging puzzle solving. This game is part one of a two part story, some questions are left unanswered and open to interpretation.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Radeon HD 2900 XT or GeForce 8800 GTX, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

29 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 302 weeks ago.

It is less well reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Nephise Begins ($0.99, scores 11) and Silver Chains ($24.99, scores 16) both outscore it.

More about Montague's Mount

The press gave it 39; the people who bought it give it 58 percent. A 19-point gap in the buyer's favour.

The drop-off

39% start to 5% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

I've already had this sensation playing the game near the 2014, but this time i'm gonna put it into words. This games feels really bad, and not in the good sense, it has too many problems. Let's do a little list: - Bad Movement: - Slow, I mean, reaaalllyyy slow. - It feels like riding a wagon. - Imposibility to climb certain steps and objects. (got stuck 25 min in the end trying to climb a step) - Too many invisible...
EL LOCO 314Not recommendedafter 9.0hNov 2021Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Slow, glitchy, tedious to play, and the plinth puzzle is one of the most badly designed things I've ever seen.
PhoeNot recommendedafter 7.6hSep 2020Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Montague's Mount scores 5/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/258950/montague-s-mount
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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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+19
Critics39
Players58
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 429 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPolyPusher Studios
PublisherPolyPusher Studios
GenreNarrative
Released2013
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements20