Cape Hideous

Cape Hideous

Fair · Narrative · 2024

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a BANGER price before.

Today

$5.99Fair

On its price record

$1.68BANGER

Length
0.6h
Value
$9.98/hr
Reviews
98% of 279 positive
It needs 72% off ($1.68) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $4.33.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.68 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Reviews98% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 94% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement86% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$9.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 238 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Amongst the motliest of all crews, an enigmatic woman prepares the ship to enter an intense thunderstorm raging in the middle of the ocean. What otherworldly mysteries lie within?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1gb, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

13 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $1.68 BANGER line 5 times.

Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Creaks ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Samorost 3 ($19.99, scores 60).

More about Cape Hideous

Steam's global achievement data puts 86 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 238 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 98 percent of the 232 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 97 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

86% start to 86% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Cape Hideous scores 62/100 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/3187550/cape-hideous
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperJake Clover
PublisherNonsense Machine
GenreNarrative
Released2024
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements7