Sinister City
Skip · Narrative · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 20, under the fair line, at $0.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.55/hr
- Reviews▼
- 66% of 1,599
- Genre rank
- Top 79% Narrative
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.8h
- To 100%
- 2.8h 1.6x the story
- Finish
- 15% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 17
Price and sales
- Sales
- 92 on record
- Typical cut
- 51% off
- Steam low
- $0.09 August 2015
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 92% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 12% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
25% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 92 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 51 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 88 percent. Alchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends ($1.99, scores 52) outscores it, and so does Frankenstein: Master of Death ($4.99, scores 60). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Sinister City
Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 292 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
It's worth playing through once, although some of the puzzles are completely illogical.
2 more reviews
I would love to give a review for this game, but first I'll need you to find a bottle, glasses, a mace, 9 stars, all the lost pages in my secret journal (one of them is invisible btw good luck lol), the recipe for the surprise cake (also in pieces), all the ingredients for that cake, the mixer and bowl, then you'll need to complete a little mini-puzzle where you bake it, then lastly find 12 marbles (one of them is a...
I've played a lot of HOG's in my time. Is this the best? No, definitely not, but I still loved the goofy, corniness of the story. I'll recommend it, especially for the low price.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Who would name their town Sinister City? Vampires, of course! When John discovers his bride-to-be has been kidnapped by Sinister City's number one bloodsucker, there's only one thing to do - search for hidden objects! And kill vampires! Or at least insult them until they give your girl back.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1024x768 resolution, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sinister City scores 20/100 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/326180/sinister-cityReviews 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 19, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.