Adventures of Bertram Fiddle 1: A Dreadly Business
Fair · Narrative · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.7h 1.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.94/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 529 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
A classic point and click adventure game, featuring weird and wonderful characters, beautiful animation and a fantastic soundtrack. "It is quite possibly one of the finest point-and-click comedy murder mystery adventure games set in Victorian London you will play today" - Bertram Fiddle
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 55 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 80 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Darkside Detective ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Broken Age ($14.99, scores 42).
More about Adventures of Bertram Fiddle 1: A Dreadly Business
Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 228 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 54 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
I am giving this a positive review, but the game was not really for me. The voice acting was great, and there were numerous scenes to interact with. The puzzles were a bit too easy for someone who might regularly do point and click adventures. I was not very engaged in the story. However, for a younger or inexperienced audience, this game would be really good to start on.
1 more review, not recommended
The animation and voice acting were great, which was promising, but as a fan of point-and-click games, the puzzles were too straightforward for my liking. This was more of a short, click-through storyline really, which is fine, but not engaging enough as a game to want to play on to the next episode. Hard to give it a thumbs down though with animation this cute!
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Adventures of Bertram Fiddle 1: A Dreadly Business scores 61/100 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/354680/adventures-of-bertram-fiddle-1-a-dreadly-businessReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.