Call of Cthulhu®
Skip · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $2.44/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 89% over the last 30 days against 79% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB, GeForce GTX 660/Radeon HD 7870, 13 GB of storage. Windows only.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in September 2025. It has been discounted 74 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 43 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter ($19.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Sherlock Holmes The Awakened ($39.99, scores 42).
Players rate it 79 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 89 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 15 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 826 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
At 8.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
79% start to 5% 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
42 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
TLDR: Highly recommended to those looking for an authentic lovecraftian experience and/or CoC TTRPG Vibes. Others will probably stumble over its flaws. First of all, this is neither a RPG nor a horror game. The game recombines basic building blocks of 2010s indie horror games. At its core, its primarily a linear narrative adventure; to spice things up, you get some choices, stats that make minor differences, some...
Oh man, I need to collect my thoughts after playing this game. I played it after both Sinking City games, so obviously, starting as a detective and accepting a case right at the beginning had me thinking, "Oh yea, here we go. Time to search everything, solve this baby, and move on to the next one." (No, I am not reading the whole description of the game before starting it, because I don't want to spoil myself too...
Es un juego basado en la mejor historia de terror cosmico jamas escrita. Le hace honor, las secuencias de persecusión y de acción estan buenas, pero a veces te deja con un poco de sabor a poco. Me gusta el aspecto RPG, pero lamentablemente es dificil ver su efecto si no se juega numerosas veces con diferntes estrategias. Los gráficos quedaron muy atrás para el día de hoy (2026) pero aún asi a veces esta re piola...
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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Call of Cthulhu® scores 44/100 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/399810/call-of-cthulhuThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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