The Horror at Highrook
Fair · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.9h 13h to 100%
- Value
- $2.02/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 492 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $16.50 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting narrative RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the missing family, and choose your own path through the darkness.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4GB VRAM, 1080p minimum resolution, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 14 discounts in the 18 months tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Myths of Rules ($2.99, scores 63).
More about The Horror at Highrook
Steam's global achievement data puts 39 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 345 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026.
The drop-off
73% start to 39% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Lost hours of gameplay: I reached Chapter 6 with watchers, but the next day I was back at Chapter 2. Sometimes you get stuck because there are almost no hints about what to do next, so you have to try things randomly or look through all your cards in case you missed anything. The game is very linear, so this is not fun, because you have to do correct action anyway to progress. Game also has a lot of repetitive tasks...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I can faintly recommend the game. The story is very good and the puzzles were simple to a fault. However, when you get the I THINK I SHOULD FOCUS ON SOMETHING ELSE for the umpteenth time, the shine starts to wear off. Also, this game is, at best, played to completion twice if you want to unlock all the achievements. After that, don't bother with it. The game is completely scripted and linear, with no deviation to...
Two hours in, completed chapter 1, but I'm feeling like I'm not making many choices. The gameplay is superficially like Cultist Simulator or Book of Hours, but where those games offer plenty of choices about what to do, this is entirely scripted and linear. Effectively its cow-clicker, and the only question is how efficiently you can click the cow to zip through the titbits of plot it drops. As for the story itself...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Horror at Highrook scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2836860/the-horror-at-highrookReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.