Dark Fall: The Journal
Skip · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$4.99Skip
On its price record
$4.35Fair
- Length
- 5h 8.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 311 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.35 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
This Myst-style horror-adventure game will bring fear into your heart. From the very beginning you are exposed to an overwhelming but invisible ghost presence – strange calls, footsteps, voices from nowhere. In order to help your brother and survive you will need to solve the mystery of this abandoned, haunted place. And remember!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9. Windows only.
The value story
97 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 23 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 61 percent of its genre. Amanda the Adventurer 2 ($9.99, scores 54) outscores it, and so does Amanda the Adventurer ($8.99, scores 72). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Dark Fall: The Journal
68 from critics against 79 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
At 5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 20:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Really fun and spooky! Great atmosphere and I loved the puzzles. I have filled pages of my notebook with scribbles that make it look like I'm trying to summon a demon haha. Best kind of game in my opinion! The puzzle logic and navigation may be very jarring for people who aren't familiar with adventure games from this era, I think modern games tend to hold your hand a lot more. Don't expect modern polish and in game...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
An old classic. I was quite impressed as I have never played this game before. It's a solid point and click horror game with great narrative depth and interesting, detailed environments. The voice acting is surprisingly good and overall, it's a fun experience. The puzzles are difficult but not impossible and I only looked at a walkthrough for a couple points that I just happened to miss while exploring on my own...
while the idea of this game is at least pretty solid as a spooky point and click game, i think it falls short of being a good game as you get such a broad set of information and not a lot in terms of getting that information to the puzzle it needs to be at, even finding where the locks are can be tricky as each area gets scanned up and down with the pointer and the sequel doesn't seem to be any better in this regard...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Dark Fall: The Journal scores 49/100 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/260690/dark-fall-the-journalReviews 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.