The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
Fair · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 20.8h
- Value
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GTX 260 or equivalent, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was December 2025. 90 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mists of Aiden ($6.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Just Ignore Them ($3.99, scores 37).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 20.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 426 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 20.8 hours; clearing it takes 60, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
82% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 21:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
An interesting and well put together visual novel that centres on the premise of mystery and urban legends, and builds a cast of characters with their own personal dramas around it. It has an interesting structure in that there isn't just one protagonist. The whole story consists of 7 chapters, and in each chapter, we're viewing the events from the eyes of a different character. All of these characters are part of...
I originally played The Letter on Switch, but after replaying it on Steam, I can confidently say that PC is the much better experience. The game looks absolutely gorgeous, especially the huge variety of backgrounds (many of which are even animated) and the overall production quality is genuinely impressive. The voice acting is also fantastic. I normally don't particularly like English-voiced visual novels, but the...
Not that bad, not really good either. Mediocre fits. The voice acting was great. The characters, however, felt stereotypical and some interactions between characters felt forced. While I also enjoyed the music, the art was lacking . The artwork did not fit the story and really took me out of it at some points. I could not tell you how the story ended, since I decided not to continue playing it to the end, not even...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/460430/the-letter-horror-visual-novelReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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