Masquerada: Songs and Shadows
Fair · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 14.3h 17.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.40/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 547 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $19.35 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
Masquerada is a single-player tactical RPG set in a Renaissance-inspired city of magic, where real-time combat can be paused to set up elemental combos powered by Venetian-styled masks. Come for gorgeous hand-drawn art; stay for the rich lore & a thoughtful, fully-voiced tale of intrigue & tragedy.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4400, 16 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 45 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Small Saga ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Ash of Gods: Redemption ($24.99, scores 35).
More about Masquerada: Songs and Shadows
The press gave it 64; the people who bought it give it 88 percent. A 24-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 60 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
The drop-off
60% start to 60% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
The game is good from the audiovisual perspective, but fails when it comes to player engagement and gameplay, which is walking from quest marker to quest marker and listening to dialogue.
1 more review, not recommended
Masquerada: Songs and Shadows is a hard to recommend, because on the one hand the world building, art and music is done very well, but the gameplay and story feel undercooked. The creators certainly put a lot of love in it, but it seems too ambitous for what they were capable of.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Masquerada: Songs and Shadows scores 67/100 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/459090/masquerada-songs-and-shadowsReviews 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.