Worshippers of Cthulhu
Fair · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $12.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2024. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 7.8h
- Value
- $1.60/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($14.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($12.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 670 z 2 GB VRAM lub AMD Radeon R9 270X z 2 GB VRAM, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
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
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $12.49. 18 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $12.49 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ostriv ($24.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Foundation ($34.99, scores 58).
13 of the 499 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 684 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 197 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.8 hours; clearing it takes 40, which is 5.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
88% start to <1% 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
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 23:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
For the most part it's a very in-depth and well designed city-builder about conquering empires with unnatural horror entities. Easily over 90% of it is perfectly solid. It's exactly what it makes itself out to be, in the best way possible, with one caveat. The horror entities you spawn and control LOOK intimidating but ultimately, just aren't an actual threat. They look the part, for sure, and can pack a punch when...
My first hour review: Very cool art design and direction. Cultists have names and jobs. But, when clicking on a cultist's house, it's the same 3D model saying the same line. I'd prefer a portrait and silence. The tutorial should include keyboard shortcuts. I had to look in the menus to find out that F1, F2, and F3 control time. There's a lot of jittering and hitching. My mouse cursor is in one place and then it...
I really enjoy Lovecraftian stuff, and I've been enjoying a lot of city/colony builders recently, so I figured I'd give this one a try. I'm no stranger to playing the 'bad guy' in games either, so I wasn't worried about it getting to dark. What made me not recommend this game was how TEDIOUS it made it all feel. Your workers go 'Praise be to the demon' in the most bored 'I only got 3 hours of sleep, I'm here at my...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Worshippers of Cthulhu 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/2807150/worshippers-of-cthulhuReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 2.
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