Violent Horror Stories: anthology
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.2h 1.7h to 100%
- Value
- $2.49/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 617 positive
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What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
4 short horror games from different authors and in different genres. Each game is an author's vision on the theme of 'pursuit'.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA gtx 960, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. In 3 months of price history it has never once been discounted.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is cheaper than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Decarnation ($14.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats MADiSON ($34.99, scores 47).
More about Violent Horror Stories: anthology
Of the 400 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 23 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 26 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 23 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 394 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 68 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 21:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
was so excited to see NINAH demo in here after having played it and buying this without any idea. overall pretty incredible to play short games from super indie devs and designers in a collection like this. All Along The Toon Tower was the surprise hit for me, didn't expect to be so engaged by a game with such a simple interface but i got SUPER into it. all of the others were really unique and it just always feels...
1 more review, not recommended
I actually like the concept of compiling many tiny games into one collection but the presented games were not it, to be honest. My thoughts on all the titles individually: - "I ate old man's liver now this b***ch is mine": Shallow and nonsensical. It was disgusting but not the good kind, in terms of horror. - "No, i'm not a human": Since I already played the full release title, there was not much for me to discover...
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Cite this score
Violent Horror Stories: anthology scores 54/100 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/3080380/violent-horror-stories-anthologyReviews 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 5. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.