Chronicles of the Witches and Warlocks

Chronicles of the Witches and Warlocks

Skip · Narrative · 2015

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 11, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
3.2h 3.2h to 100%
Value
$4.68/hr
Reviews
64% of 239 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 5 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
Engagement5% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.68/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews64% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 65% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 126 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

To free her beloved, the lawyer Kathleen Wilson has to hold her own investigation. She’ll have to solve a plethora of puzzles before she can learn what really happened.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 532 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

83 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek ($14.99, scores 52) and Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden ($14.99, scores 57) both outscore it.

More about Chronicles of the Witches and Warlocks

Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

The drop-off

8% start to 5% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

Chronicles of the Witches and Warlocks is one of those Hidden Object Games that I really enjoyed. I played this with my wife who absolutely loved the story, mini games and hidden object scenes. We encountered a few hidden scenes with the wrong description of an object (i.e. a Pretzel was incorrectly named a Croissant) but luckily we didn't encounter any game breaking bugs. There were a few broken achievements...
Timelegend2005Recommendedafter 5.2hDec 2025Read on Steam
1 more review
A wonderful HO game packed with action and mystery. There's this artefact everybody wants to get their hands on it, there's the protagonist's fiancee who has been framed, there's this masked man that's after the artefact and there's you, the protagonist, a lady lawyer who is willing to go on this strange mission to free your fiance from custody. It's a long journey ahead with awkward situations that will test both...
elena_tapeanRecommendedafter 1.4hJan 2023Read 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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Chronicles of the Witches and Warlocks scores 11/100 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/396850/chronicles-of-the-witches-and-warlocks
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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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developer8Floor
Publisher8Floor
GenreNarrative
Released2015
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13