Cursed Sight

Cursed Sight

Fair · Short indie · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.5h 3.3h to 100%
Value
$2.00/hr
Reviews
82% of 214 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 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

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
Engagement26% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews82% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 30 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

Being able to control fate would be a blessing for many. To Miyon, it is her greatest curse.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1280 x 960, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

91 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Calm Down, Stalin ($3.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Psalm 5:9-13 ($3.99, scores 45).

More about Cursed Sight

Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

The drop-off

38% start to 26% 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

What players say

This game gives off such a mixed bag of emotions its insane really. It explores levels of emotion and ties between people that is rarely explored by devs, VN authors or anything at all, the reason for this is that its easy to mess up when going into these sorts of topics, i cant say what they are because they are spoilers. So Cursed Sight is a bit janky at the start, you may or may not be annoyed as the protagonist...
Brownninja97Recommendedafter 3.4h36 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Cursed Sight is a pretty average short Visual Novel. So I would have to give it a 6.5/10. Artwork is pretty average looking. Story is not bad, but it's not earth shattering. There is no voice acting at all. Soundtrack is decent. Sprites are not that bad. It has alot of CGs but not that many really stand out. Some even look almost identical to the other CG right next to it. In which case they should have combined it...
ViviRecommendedafter 5.7hNov 2023Read on Steam
The music and the art are really good for an indie game. However, writing needs a lot more work. It felt clumsy and choice of words were weird or didn't really suit within the story. To me, it looked like the writer doesn't have much experience, or is very young. Having good beta viewers or editors for the text would have been a good idea. It looked good, but I just couldn't enjoy it, because writing and good...
SadellaNot recommendedafter 2.3h20 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Cursed Sight scores 54/100 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/360550/cursed-sight
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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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperInvertMouse
PublisherInvertMouse
GenreShort indie
Released2015
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements9