Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi
Fair · Roguelike · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $0.75/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory. Windows only.
It is a misty evening in the year of our lord 1912. The Pattersons, a poor but proud aristocratic family of the British nobility, and some of their closest friends, arrive at the castle Malachi residence of a wealthy Romanian Count.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.50, set in October 2019. It has been discounted 128 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 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 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 25 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats ZOMBI ($4.99, scores 15).
70 from critics against 87 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 380 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 566 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Absolute Classic, Recommended if you like horror, Though its not very scary but the vibes are immaculate. pretty short, but very replayable, If you vibe with it? Youll Return too this years from now for a run or two. Its best experienced blind.
It's not really long. I played it on medium difficulty and explored every single nook and cranny. It took me about 6 hours to complete though I did die a lot lol. I recommending remembering to quick save. The difficulty swung from annoying to trivial. The bosses weren't so bad but the portal respawners are the real challenge. The game is a bit janky sometimes in the way of npcs getting stuck on some obstacles or...
I really wanted to like this game... I love horror, vampires, Nosferatu, and old school games. The game looks extremely cool, and has interesting monsters and weapons. The main villain (The Count), looks AMAZING; they totally nailed the classic look from the original Nosferatu film. The good: The game looks great, is spooky and has a large map. A perfect game to play on a cold October evening. The enemies/bosses are...
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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Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi 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/283290/nosferatu-the-wrath-of-malachiThe 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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