Conarium
Skip · Narrative · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480/570/670, ATI Radeon HD 5870/5850, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 104 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 4 weeks.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter ($19.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs ($19.99, scores 20).
Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 1 of the 561 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 195 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
75% start to 29% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Conarium scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/313780/conariumThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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