Conarium
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 82% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$3.5982% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.88/hr
- Reviews▼
- 77% of 2,292
- Critics
- 71 players 6 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 47% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.59 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.1h
- To 100%
- 5.5h 1.3x the story
- Finish
- 29% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 26
Price and sales
- Sales
- 106 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 June 2026
- Sale every
- 30d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 58% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
75% start to 29% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 106 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 47 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 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).
More about Conarium
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 18. 1 of the 560 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 198 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
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
While I did enjoy a good deal, CONARIUM suffers from an overstuffed story that leaves far too many details and plot points up in the air. Ambiguity can be fantastic, especially with cosmic and Lovecraftian horror, but not when most of your game leaves most questions unanswered in what's an already real short game with very little replay value. Not to mention, it's not all that scary. Pretty much nothing in this game...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Game breaking bugs. Have gave up playing due to being unable to move when transitioning scene. Reloading or restarting a new play though does not help
I kind of liked this game, but I think I would have enjoyed it better without the cheap mummy chase gimmick where I somehow couldn't run, or the run mechanic wasn't working properly and I ended up getting killed because I was WALKING. Therefore screwing up my no-deaths run. Luckily I backed up my saves to another folder beforehand. Forewarned is forearmed, no? Dumb achievements aside, I find Lovecraftian games...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Conarium scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/313780/conariumReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.