The Franz Kafka Videogame
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 17, under the fair line, at $1.04.
- Length
- 1.7h 3.1h to 100%
- Value
- $0.61/hr
- Reviews
- 65% of 891 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
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About the game
An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 256 MB. Windows only.
The value story
96 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 85 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.04 at 85 percent off still sits 51 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is less well reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Rusty Lake Hotel ($1.99, scores 96) and No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut ($6.99, scores 64) both outscore it.
More about The Franz Kafka Videogame
None of the 393 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 259 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
50% start to 8% 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
What players say
This is Franz Kafka's literary ethos translated flawlessly into interactive space. Most games misuse "Kafkaesque" as a shallow shorthand for bureaucracy or weirdness. This title, however, grasps the true essence of Kafka's world-including its subtle, ludicrous, and deeply absurd sense of comedy: that exact brand of deadpan humor Kafka himself found in the human condition. It brilliantly captures the spatial and...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The Franz Kafka Videogame is a surreal puzzle adventure that fully embraces absurdity, ambiguity, and dreamlike storytelling in a way few games attempt. Developed by Denis Galanin and published by Daedalic Entertainment, the game takes inspiration from the themes and atmosphere commonly associated with Franz Kafka's literary works. Rather than adapting one specific novel, it creates an original narrative shaped...
As a fan of Kafka's work, this game was such a big letdown. I get it, Kafka isn't easy to adapt into a videogame, and I liked the nods to various of his works, but it fails to really be about the material it's constantly references. It's very surreal, something I really like but unfortunately it rarely makes sense. If you want a good surreal point n click, play the Rusty Lake series. I really wish I could love this...
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Cite this score
The Franz Kafka Videogame scores 17/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/392280/the-franz-kafka-videogameReviews 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.