Menace from the Deep
Fair · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $16.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15h
- Value
- $1.13/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($11.04)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 65% ($5.94)
- Last discount ended
- 38 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Menace from the Deep is an enthralling Roguelike Deckbuilding card game that unfolds in a dark world, drawing inspiration from Howard Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.Set against the backdrop of 1920s USA, the narrative revolves around a clandestine occult society.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.09. That was August 2026. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 18 in the 2 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 41 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Roguebook ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Deck of Ashes ($19.99, scores 28).
This site sampled 680 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 200 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 15 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 90, 6.0 times as much.
The drop-off
80% start to 31% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
31 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 03:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Menace from the Deep - це певно один із найкращих роуглайтів за останній час в який я грав. І грав я в них багато. І особливо багато грав у Slay the Spire та його клонів. І очікував ще до гри в бету щось схоже, але я дуже радий що помилявся. В цій грі є усе що забажає фанат і навіть більше. Це не просто роуглайт. Це сюжетно-орієнтований роуглайт із історією Лавкрафта, чудовою музикою, атмосферою, вражаючим...
it's a great lovecraftian rougelike deckbuilder - the atmosphere is really well done, the events fit right into the game world, i think the leveling system from the cards is well done. In theory the relic system is a cool idea - sometimes falls flat because of the balancing. The meta-progression feels great at start, but very soon makes you overpowered (+1 energy from start beeing the most egrigious one) - further...
The loop isn't fun. You quickly understand you are going to die. Because this game is made for you to repeat to obtain materials to get stronger enough. Wood in stage 1, bricks in stage 2... Your strategy become, how are you going to collect most of what is required to upgrade a little to be able to do the same a little more next time. You learn how and where you are going to lose to restart from the beginning. If...
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Cite this score
Menace from the Deep scores 59/100 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/2644610/menace-from-the-deepReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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