Letters of Bernard Thorne
Fair · Narrative · 2025
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. A BANGER at $3.08, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2025 (lowest $8.99, Oct 2025).
- Length
- 1.5h 2h to 100%
- Value
- $6.66/hr
- Reviews
- 98% of 203 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.08 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 5 of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
『Letters of Bernard Thorne』 is a story-driven psychological horror game about trauma. Take a seat in Bernard's motorized wheelchair. Roam around the old man's house. Discover his scarred past. Flee from his sins. Climb up the attic.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1650, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 5 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 10 percent, about 14 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $3.08, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, PROXIMATE ($5.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Layers of Fear ($29.99, scores 40).
What players say
I can't recommend this game enough. You get to see not only what caused Bernard's trauma along with pieces of paper saying what he has. But you also get to experience how the trauma affects him. As someone who has PTSD, I felt like I could heavily relate to the way he tried to make everyone around him think he was fine when he falling apart. The way the guilt from war made him react to his wife even though the...
2 more reviews
An incredible game. Words cannot even begin to explain how much I enjoyed this. A beautiful blend between story telling and horror. An emotional impact worth noting and a game I will recommend to many.
some scars never heal, they will keep rupturning and rupturning until the bleeding soaks even the ones around you, we are all just small scarred things looking for a place to heal. life goes on one heavy step at a time
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Cite this score
Letters of Bernard Thorne scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2984860/letters-of-bernard-thorneReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.