Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity
Fair · RPG · 2016
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.1h 5.6h to 100%
- Value
- $3.22/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 537 positive
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
About the game
Discover the secrets of the estate, as you look for answers among the violent inhabitants. A strange and repelling madness took hold of the servants roaming the halls, and they will attack on sight, for their madness is one rooted in a deeper understanding of cosmic insignificance.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB RAM, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
83 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Death's Gambit: Afterlife ($19.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Hellpoint ($34.99, scores 28).
More about Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity
Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 203 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 144 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
67% start to 10% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Main story finished in 4 hours, The first game in the Skautfold franchise. What makes this series of games stand out is the fact that each one is in a different genre. 2D pixel Bloodborne is what to expect; controls on M&K felt strange at first, as I don't really play games like this, but after a while I got used to it. It's short and does not overstay its welcome, However, there is a bunch of extra content if you...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity is a dark action-adventure game created by Steve Gal and published by Pugware. Released on Steam in 2016, it serves as the first entry in the Skautfold series and introduces players to a grim alternate history setting steeped in gothic horror and cosmic mystery. The game combines 2D exploration with deliberate combat mechanics inspired by Souls-like design, while its narrative borrows...
Amazing artstyle, interesting story, overall a fun game but janky controls, copious amounts of bugs and the lack of a map make the exploration a pain, the exits/doors aren't highlighted and hard to see, and especially the gun/aiming is really frustrating because it requires you to be on the same axis as the enemy and if you're off by a milimeter it doesn't hit, while the gun shots for enemies and bosses seem to...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/444590/skautfold-shrouded-in-sanityReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.