Haunt the House: Terrortown
Fair · Action · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.6h
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
Haunt your way through town in the dead of night! Possess objects to scare people away from a museum, a hospital, a theatre and a cruise ship. Will you be able to scare everyone out and reclaim what has been lost, before the night is over? A side-scrolling action puzzle game starring ghosts!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 78 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Pikuniku ($12.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Life Goes On: Done to Death ($12.99, scores 62).
7 of the 440 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 1,066 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 48 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.6 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 3.6 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
54% start to 2% 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
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Replayed it purely for the nostalgic factor. It can be a little bit repetitive though, so just a heads up
As someone who was a huge fan of the flash version back in 2010, im so greatful that the developers decided to have even more fun with this game and continue it. Im IN LOVE with the artstyle and the whole concept of the game! This is the type of game i love to replay over and over, even back when i was aware only of the free version. Its just really therapeutic to sit down, blast some punk music and start scaring...
This game is very straight forward game, there is only one goal, scare the frick out of these damn humans. Pretty simple right? But if you don't get the hang of it, it would be hard to scare people off fast and you will lost your interests fast. If you know the tricks, you can usually finish any map around 10 mins or less. First, I recommend choose the second map to play first, cause it a tutorial map, the third map...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Haunt the House: Terrortown scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/270630/haunt-the-house-terrortownThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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