Vampyr

Vampyr

Fair · RPG · 2018

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair at $3.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jun 2017. Buy it now if you want it.

Cost per hourS
$0.24/hr
Reviews▼
78% of 25,584
Critics
72 players 6 higher
Genre rank
Top 16% RPG

Holding it back: Reviews

Score at full price

Skip$39.99

Score today

−90%Fair
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
16.8h
To 100%
41.5h 2.5x the story
Achievements
28

Price and sales

Sales
83 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$3.99 February 2026
Sale every
36d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $3.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
382 now
Recent reviews
81% 30 days
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
68% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

91% start to 2% 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

February 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 83 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart.

Its score sits in the top 16 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption ($5.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats ELEX ($29.99, scores 39).

More about Vampyr

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 1,199 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

16.8 hours to finish it, 42 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.

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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.24/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set. That is today's sale price. Normally $2.38/hr
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 77% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Refunds15 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

I didn't expect Vampyr to make me care so much about the people I met. When I first started playing, I was mostly curious about what it would be like to be a vampire in 1918 London. But the further I got into the story, the more I realized that being a vampire wasn't the most interesting part. It was being Jonathan Reid. A doctor who spent his life trying to save people, suddenly forced to survive by taking their...
HexuManRecommendedafter 32h763 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is probably the best game I've played this year. An absolute masterpiece, to be honest. It's one of those underrated, overlooked, and forgotten games that everyone should try, and I'm sure they'll enjoy it. - A rich and well written story. - Gameplay and combat are incredibly fun. - There are a lot of different abilities for different playstyles. - A small but fun and sometimes pretty to look at open world. ...
TypicalRecommendedafter 50h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam
frustrating combat and EXP mechanic - 16 hours in and I'm dragging myself to the finish line
kartmaN uWuNot recommendedafter 16hOct 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB, GeForce GTX 1050 (Legacy GPU: GeForce GTX 660) / Radeon R7 370, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Vampyr scores 53/100 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/427290/vampyr
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Reviews 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 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+6
Critics72
Players78
Metacritic critics · 25,584 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperDONTNOD Entertainment
PublisherFocus Entertainment
GenreRPG
Released2018
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements28