The Charnel House Trilogy
Fair · Narrative · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.9h 2.3h to 100%
- Value
- $3.15/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 689 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Witness The Charnel House Trilogy, the chronicle of one fateful night aboard a train bound for Augur Peak. Three thrilling, horrifying adventure games in one, from the depths of the Sepulchre, starring Madeleine Roux, Peter Willington, Jonathan Grier, Jim Sterling, and Ben Chandler as Grub.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Integrated Graphics (512MB VRAM and above), 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 59 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 68 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Supper (free, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Draugen ($19.99, scores 29).
More about The Charnel House Trilogy
The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 80 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 174 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
32% start to 14% 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
What players say
Extremely unlikable protagonist, uninteresting and unlikable other characters, story is all over the place and the game tries to be a lot more clever than it actually is, much like the protaganist. The constant profanity is also painfully awkward and I'm no puritan by any measure. Didn't care one bit for this.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
I liked the pixel art and having full voice acting is nice, too. But, well.. the game is really short and the title is misleading. I expected three games, or at least three full episodes, but instead it's just three short chapters, two of which take place in the same, rather boring location. The game then ends abruptly, leaving a huge cliffhanger and a lot of things unexplained. Like an appetizer for the real...
I still remember the twist with the neighbour as one of the most random and unnecessary tone shifts I have ever seen. It was such a weird experience to have a game that had kept my interest up until that point lose all its appeal in just one scene. Jim Sterling deserved better. Hell, this entire game deserved better.
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Cite this score
The Charnel House Trilogy scores 51/100 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/288930/the-charnel-house-trilogyReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.