Illusion Carnival

Illusion Carnival

Worth it · RPG · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

PriceS
Free to play
ReviewsS
98% of 7,544
Genre rank
Top 2% RPG

Time and effort

Main story
2h
To 100%
4.3h 2.1x the story
Finish
9% reach the ending
Achievements
12

Players and genre

Online
10 now
Recent reviews
95% 30 days
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

34% start to 9% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue (free, scores 81).

It is still busy. 10 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 6, 10:47 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.

More about Illusion Carnival

Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2-hour game, that is a lot of evenings the rest never spend.

The main story runs 2 hours. Doing everything runs 4, 2.1 times as long.

Buy now or wait

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 we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement9% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A lost soul wanders through a whimsical, eerie pop-up book like amusement park. Dive into fun-filled stages, encounter unique characters, fend off spirit erosion, and uncover the park's hidden secrets. The enchanting yet dark Illusion Carnival begins now.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560 Ti, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Illusion Carnival scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 7,544 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2796340/illusion-carnival
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperKiZ
PublisherKiZ
GenreRPG
Released2024
Achievements12