Our Darker Purpose
Fair · Roguelike · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 11.4h 226h to 100%
- Value
- $1.31/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 743 positive
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 942 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
Journey to the dark heart of the Edgewood Home for Lost Children in this fiendishly difficult action RPG!When her teacher stepped out of the classroom a month ago, Cordy never imagined he would be gone for good. Now her fellow students have turned on each other as the school descends into chaos.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, X1950 Pro, 7900 GT, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
21 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 16 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 135 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 48 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Binding of Isaac ($4.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Killing Room ($14.99, scores 24).
More about Our Darker Purpose
The press gave it 74; the people who bought it give it 82 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 11.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 226, 20 times as much.
The drop-off
51% start to 1% 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
What players say
really cool game that unfortunately did not get the attention it deserves. It's not as smooth as Binding of Isaac but in return there's not poop noises and wet meat sounds every second. It's got its own charm and appeal that I really liked.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Great game, but feels like incomplete. Should be more balanced in terms of enemies and upgrades. Difficulty: hard - very hard 100 % achievement difficulty: hard Graphics: good Music: very good
Our Darker Purpose is an interesting little action roguelike with an unique setting and charming gothic art; however, it's riddled with so many janky issues that the game quickly becomes incredibly frustrating to play. Leveling Up: Enemies drop experience when killed, and on level up you choose a passive upgrade that lasts for the rest of the run. Some of these passives are much stronger than others, and having the...
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Cite this score
Our Darker Purpose scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/262790/our-darker-purposeReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.