Staffer Retro : A Supernatural Mystery Quest

Staffer Retro : A Supernatural Mystery Quest

Worth it · Narrative · 2026

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $24.99.

Length
20h
Value
$1.25/hr
Reviews
90% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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Length
20h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.25
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
857 reviews, as of Aug 6
Metacritic
79
critic score
Released
2026

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, DirectX 11 capable GPU, 7 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Staffer Retro is a mystery adventure game where you uncover past incidents related to ‘Mana’, the source of supernatural powers. Gather information through dialogue and exploration, and piece together clues found in documents to guide the choices of Verita Retro, the protagonist.
Description from the Steam store page.

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
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement85% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.25/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length20 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 386 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $21.99, set in September 2026. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 72 days tracked here, most recently in September 2026.

On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent.

79 from critics against 90 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Steam's global achievement data puts 85 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 386 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

The drop-off

85% start to 85% 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

Cite this score

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Staffer Retro : A Supernatural Mystery Quest scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3837350/staffer-retro-a-supernatural-mystery-quest
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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 Aug 6, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+11
Critics
79
Players
90
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 857 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperTeam Tetrapod
PublisherTeam Tetrapod
GenreNarrative
Released2026
Achievements15