Deck of Haunts
Fair · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $7.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since May 2025. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 2.7h
- Value
- $2.96/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 60% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($11.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($9.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 3GB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.99, set in September 2026. Its cuts run 45 percent off as a rule. There have been 14 in the 17 months tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $7.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 42 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Menace from the Deep ($16.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Cardboard Town ($19.99, scores 50).
9 of the 484 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 125 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
95% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
84 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 20:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Nice little deck building game. Fans of the Arkham board game will love being on the opposite side of things. The game is also polished. Zero bugs and everything works well and info is there when needed on what something does. Good number of builds one can achieve with sub types of the main builds. See myself slowly adding hours on as i try to unlock all the rooms. 30 plus special rooms add variety to the mansion...
Great little puzzle game, fantastic theme. The continued development over the past few months has added so much, refining the mechanics and balance, extending the gameplay, to the extent I've came back for hours of play after initially feeling I'd beaten it. If you have that villain vibe, want a chill turn-based game to pass some time on, and love everything spooky, you could do a lot worse.
I bought this on sale for £6, so can't complain. Appreciate what they are going for here, but the gameplay gets repetitive VERY quickly. Love the concept, however I think the game lacks any meaning or identity. You are evil just because some text box says you are. There is really nothing encouraging to do 'one more run'. Many other similar games, have an identity either through voice acting, satirical comedy, or...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Deck of Haunts scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3179730/deck-of-hauntsReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 2.
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