This Book Is A Dungeon
Skip · Narrative · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $0.79.
- Length
- 1.5h 3.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.53/hr
- Reviews
- 72% of 299 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
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
About the game
Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Navigate this sprawling narrative-driven labyrinth bristling with otherworldly doom.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory. Windows only.
The value story
86 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.79 at 84 percent off still sits 61 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 49 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Morbid: The Seven Acolytes ($24.99, scores 27).
More about This Book Is A Dungeon
The main story runs 1.5 hours. Doing everything runs 3, 2.1 times as long.
What players say
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
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I haven't played this game in almost seven years but it was so striking to me that even today I remember it very clearly.
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Cite this score
This Book Is A Dungeon scores 33/100 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/404690/this-book-is-a-dungeonReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.