The Deed
Worth it · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.99.
- Length
- 0.5h
- Value
- $1.98/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of storage. Windows only.
A keenly dark twist on the traditional murder mystery setting, The Deed is an Adventure/RPG game about getting away with murder. Arran Bruce, the rightful heir to Dunshiel House, returns home to settle a score with his estranged family.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.28. That was November 2022. Its cuts run 51 percent off as a rule. There have been 111 in the 11 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart. 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 4 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LISA: The Painful ($10.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Contradiction: Spot The Liar ($12.99, scores 68).
Of the 379 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 907 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.5 hours; clearing it takes 2, which is 4.8 times the campaign.
The drop-off
17% start to 7% 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
1 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
Most murder mysteries ask you to find the killer. This one lets you be the killer. Short, clever and surprisingly replayable thanks to all the different ways you can try to get away with it.
really good game! makes you think of all the ways you can manipulate the characters and investigator, is really cool I must admit!
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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The Deed scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/420740/the-deedThe 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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