Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist

Worth it · Short indie · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

PriceS
Free to play
ReviewsS
93% of 10,193
Genre rank
Top 1% Short indie

Holding it back: Reach

Time and effort

Main story
0.4h
To 100%
1.8h 4.5x the story
Achievements
6

Players and genre

Online
2 now
Better reviewed
97% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

67% start to 6% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015 (free, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats The Stanley Parable ($14.99, scores 62).

It is still busy. 2 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 3, 01:07 UTC, across 28 days of weekly checks.

More about Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist

Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 128 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 85 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 0.4 hours. Doing everything runs 2, 4.5 times as long.

Buy now or wait

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

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
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

A 15 minute heist game by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (The Stanley Parable). Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the mastermind responsible for the greatest heist- oh god I can’t do this any more, i’m joining the strike. good luck writing the steam description. -tina
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Video card with 512MB of VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/409160/dr-langeskov-the-tiger-and-the-terribly-cursed-emerald-a-whirlwind-heist
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 14. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperCrows Crows Crows
PublisherCrows Crows Crows
GenreShort indie
Released2015
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements6