Castle In The Darkness
Skip · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews▼
- 76% of 1,289
- Critics
- 76
- Genre rank
- Top 27% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.8h
- To 100%
- 14.7h 2.2x the story
- Finish
- 16% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 11
Price and sales
- Sales
- 56 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 October 2020
- Sale every
- 84d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 38% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 63% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
84% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 56 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 27 percent. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Death's Gambit: Afterlife ($9.99, scores 60) outscores it, and so does La-Mulana ($14.99, scores 58). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Castle In The Darkness
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 257 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 208 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
6.8 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $7.49 (25% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Got this game because it was dirt-cheap, and I'm very glad I decided to stick through binding my controller with Steam input and playing the unimpressive first area. Soon enough, Castle In The Darkness becomes a fast-paced action platformer with lots of semi-precise jumps over instant-death spikes and pits. Death is not too punishing, there are save points scattered everywhere around the many areas in the game's...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
"Mostly Positive" is crazy to me. This game is so good. It doesn't hide what kind of a game it is at all, and it takes the premise and knocks it out of the park. The controls are snappy. The bosses are fun. The level design is unique, challenging, and rewarding. You might die a lot, (I did), but the game is built around that so you 1. don't lose progress, collectables, or money on death and 2. have frequent...
all this game has going for it is one-hit kills. every boss drops a heart that gives +1 hp, but you will never really use it, because they decided to stick spikes everywhere and spikes are all this game really seems to want to use to challenge you. I remember playing it years ago and liking it right up until I realized how much of a one-trick pony it is, and I just spent another couple hours playing it before I...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB or higher, 123 MB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Castle In The Darkness scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/262960/castle-in-the-darknessReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.