Kholat
Skip · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $4.88/hr
- Reviews
- 66% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 470, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.19, set in February 2025. It has been discounted 100 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Through the Woods ($19.99, scores 19) beats it on value, while it beats Anna - Extended Edition ($9.99, scores 6).
Steam's global achievement data says about 9 percent of players ever finish it. On a 4.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 4 of the 506 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 684 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
24% start to 9% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 4.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. 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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Kholat scores 15/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/343710/kholatThe 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 Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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