Monstrum
Worth it · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$17.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.5980% off
- Cost per hour
- $3.60/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 3,792
- Genre rank
- Top 12% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.59 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 5h
- To 100%
- 12.1h 2.4x the story
- Achievements
- 16
Price and sales
- Sales
- 83 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $3.59 May 2017
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 12 now
- Cheaper than
- 23% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 85% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
36% start to 6% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 83 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 12 percent. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Receiver 2 ($19.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Teleglitch: Die More Edition ($12.99, scores 61).
More about Monstrum
7 of the 426 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,176 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 119 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 674 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 12, 2.4 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
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
What players say
An older "escape the monster" type game that while is a little dated in some areas, there is still some fun to be had if the game is on sale. This is a procedural generated game with no saves so if you die your run is over. The procedural generation is pretty basic. The cargo ship you are on is functionally the same, but some rooms are slightly different with items in different locations. For the most part items are...
2 more reviews
This game is DEFINITELY recommended to play! It is a very unique and short Indie Horror game with procedurally generated areas and item spawns. I love how the game is never the same each playthrough, although some would argue that the permadeath is a bit much, I think its actually fair! I actually do not see how they could put possible checkpoints before dying. The mechanics are great, but I do have some critiques...
So, i was introduced to this game from Markiplier's youtube video many years back. I suddenly remembered this game one day, and decided to play for myself. The premise of Monstrum is that you wake up without any knowledge of where you are. The story of the game is told via lost notes and its environment. The task is simply to escape the desolate cargo ship while being hunted down by a monster. The game is randomly...
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About the game
Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 285 / ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 - 1GB (Direct x 9.0c / 10 / 11), 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Monstrum scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/296710/monstrumReviews 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.