Nightmare House: The Original Mod

Nightmare House: The Original Mod

Worth it · Action · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

Length
1.9h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
96% positive
Cite this score
Length
1.9h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
3.6h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
96%
2,757 reviews, as of Sep 26
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.

Wake up, it’s time for the real nightmare to begin. Make your way through a terrorizing house, uncover the secrets of a haunted hospital, fight through hordes of the undead, and try to escape Nightmare House.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews96% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 95% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement20% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
For context
Length1.9 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Jerma's Big Adventure (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats In Sound Mind ($24.99, scores 71).

Steam's global achievement data puts 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

8 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 26, 23:48 UTC.

The drop-off

51% start to 20% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 23:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Nightmare House: The Original Mod scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 2,757 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2954780/nightmare-house-the-original-mod
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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 Sep 26.

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Details

DeveloperWe Create Stuff
PublisherWe Create Stuff
GenreAction
Released2024
Achievements14