Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts
Worth it · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $11.24, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2026.
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 25% off today.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 750 Ti or similar, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Make and share the most beautiful and bizarre medieval art imaginable! Manage and grow your manuscript workshop by illustrating manuscripts, using friendly tools and a massive range of drag-and-drop artworks from the deepest reaches of history. Welcome to your very own Scriptorium!
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $11.24, set in August 2026. It has been discounted 5 times in the 6 months tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today's $11.24 at 25 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Inkulinati ($24.99, scores 59) and Cloud Gardens ($17.99, scores 71) both come in lower.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. This site sampled 324 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 257 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
88% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
53 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 19:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3119540/scriptorium-master-of-manuscriptsReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 2.
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