Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi

Fair · Roguelike · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hour
$0.75/hr
Reviews▼
87% of 3,247
Critics
70 players 17 higher
Genre rank
Top 20% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reach, Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
4h
To 100%
6.4h 1.6x the story

Price and sales

Sales
130 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$0.50 October 2019
Sale every
32d last October 2026
Lowest now $0.75 at GOGall-time low $0.37 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
4 now
Cheaper than
91% of its genre
Better reviewed
74% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 130 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.

Its score sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Witch Hunt ($9.99, scores 56).

More about Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi

70 from critics against 87 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

This site sampled 381 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 568 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 381 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Game is rough around the edges but it's an amazing time. Oozing with atmosphere and it's probably the only game to really deliver on the fantasy of being a vampire hunter
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 11h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
This game was my shit back in the 00s, and it amazes me that I can still play it on Win11 without having to use mods or anything else to work, literally, just download, play and enjoy just like it was back in 2003. To me, it was a 10/10 Survivor Horror in 2003, and it still is in 2026. I wish we could get a faithful remaster of this game with just a graphics upgrade and able to run in higher resolutions, literally...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 4.5hSep 2026Read on Steam
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.
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 9.1hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory. Windows only.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/283290/nosferatu-the-wrath-of-malachi
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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 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+17
Critics70
Players87
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 3,247 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperIdol FX
PublisherFunbox Media Ltd
GenreRoguelike
Released2014
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate