Befriended Curse
Fair · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.7h 1.4h to 100%
- Value
- $7.13/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 306 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.85 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 15 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
Witches, curses, and fairy tales meet horror in this classic walking sim with an eerie atmosphere and well-paced jumpscares.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, GTX 970 / AMD Radeon RX 580, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 19 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dollmare ($4.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats [Chilla's Art] Night Security | 夜間警備 ($7.99, scores 54).
More about Befriended Curse
This site sampled 280 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 202 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 72 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.7 hours. Doing everything runs 1, 2.0 times as long.
The drop-off
90% start to 32% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Befriended Curse scores 59/100 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/2655580/befriended-curseReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.