Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
Skip · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 6.8h
- Value
- $2.20/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The ABC Murders is an adventure and investigation game adapted from the classic Agatha Christie novel. You are the famous private detective Hercule Poirot and, once again, you find yourself up against a mysterious serial killer who goes by the name of "ABC".
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in July 2020. It has been discounted 99 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 85 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.
On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Testament of Sherlock Holmes ($19.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Still Life ($7.99, scores 44).
Of the 578 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 152 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
70% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This game is a blend of adventure and visual novels, with some simple puzzles thrown in. The voice acting is really nice and I appreciate this game's depiction of Poirot and Hastings. In terms of the narrative, it stays true to the original story its based on, which will appeal to new and old fans of all things Hercule Poirot alike. It doesn't overstay its welcome too and can easily be finished in 4-6 hours. Highly...
Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders stands as a highly polished and faithful adaptation of the classic detective novel, translating the intricate narrative into an engaging adventure game. Stepping into the shoes of the iconic Hercule Poirot, the experience revolves around solving a series of clever murders by analyzing crime scenes, questioning witnesses, and collecting vital clues. The game beautifully captures the...
Did you ever read an Agatha Christie book and think "this experience would be greatly improved with some slightly uncanny wannabe-Telltale animation, bad pathing, hidden-object searching, and puzzles that are on the easy side but still feel the need to hold your hand through them"? No? No one has ever thought that, you say? This game isn't the worst, or anything. It's just not very good.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders scores 49/100 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/374900/agatha-christie-the-abc-murdersThe 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 23, price as of Sep 24.
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