Call of Cthulhu®
Fair · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $2.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2018. Buy it now if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.36/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 14,039
- Genre rank
- Top 28% Shooter
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.2h
- To 100%
- 13.4h 1.6x the story
- Achievements
- 49
Price and sales
- Sales
- 76 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 September 2025
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 44 now
- Recent reviews
- 75% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 52% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
79% start to 5% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in September 2025. It has been discounted 76 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 28 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SOMA ($29.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats The Vanishing of Ethan Carter ($19.99, scores 52).
More about Call of Cthulhu®
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 833 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.
Buy now or wait
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
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Call of Cthulhu® (2018) - Achievement Hunter Review 🕒 Time played: 20 hours 🏆 Completion: 100% achievements - all 49 Steam achievements unlocked If you enjoy Lovecraftian gloom, cold coastal environments, the smell of rotten fish, and slow-paced detective conversations, this game will probably be right up your alley. This isn't a survival horror game like Amnesia, and it's definitely not an action game. It's a...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is honestly not bad. I was genuinely invested in it even though I'm not a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft's mythology. I really enjoyed the mystery and how the story slowly unfolded. The game itself is very linear and guides you pretty directly toward your objectives. There are some puzzles along the way, but they weren't too difficult or frustrating. Overall, I really enjoyed the game. The ending can vary...
Normally with games like this I'd try and 100% them but I've honestly not got the motivation to play this again. The aesthetics were great, the game had a pretty eerie vibe, but overall it was pretty lackluster. The story was fine, but loose and disjointed, and I didn't get a lot of satisfaction from playing it. The endings I managed to get (2 of 4 I believe) were... ok. One was AWFUL, one was ok. Neither felt like...
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB, GeForce GTX 660/Radeon HD 7870, 13 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Call of Cthulhu® scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/399810/call-of-cthulhuReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.