Dance of Death

Dance of Death

Skip · Narrative · 2015

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 16, under the fair line, at $3.99.

Length
2.1h 2.5h to 100%
Value
$1.90/hr
Reviews
64% of 335 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

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

Holding it back
Value$1.90/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews64% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 65% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 50 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

About the game

A mysterious and fascinating quest in Hidden Object genre.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 420 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 82 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 79 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. On the same math Adam Wolfe ($5.99, scores 80) and Adventure Escape Mysteries (free, scores 63) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

What players say

Cons: Very short (2-3 hours at most); clumsy navigation; unclear puzzle instructions. Pros: Nice art; a few uncommon puzzle types. Worth the sale price of $1.99, but hard to recommend at a higher price. Note: Do not download a walkthrough for this game. Sites that claim you can "download" a walkthrough for this game have infected players' computers with viruses. If a reputable site has a walkthrough, it won't ask...
signalstationRecommendedafter 2.8h47 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Storyline: Place: Venice, Italy (or somewhere that seems like it). A boy, Luciano Folgeri, was kidnapped from St. Vicarius orphanage. The gamer plays as a detective who is investigating this case. Simple enough storyline, find out about the boy, who stole the boy, where the boy was taken, rescue the boy and why this happened. Not quite sure why this game has an age lock on it. Kidnapping, possibly. The supernatural/...
joan4003Recommendedafter 11h36 found this helpfulRead on Steam
"Dance of Death" is an older game from 2015. It's a venerable 9 years old at the time of this review. It's a Hidden Object puzzle game, the type you normally see on mobile app stores or even as browser apps. There's literally hundreds of these on Steam, mostly published by Artifex Mundi, many of them free on mobile app stores, but this one will cost you money on Steam. There's a hocus pocus type magician show theme...
Obey the Fist!Not recommendedafter 2.7hAug 2024Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Dance of Death scores 16/100 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/430020/dance-of-death
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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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

Developereight game studio
PublisherRunServer
GenreNarrative
Released2015
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate