Post Mortem
Skip · Narrative · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 4, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Length
- 6.4h 8.3h to 100%
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 57% of 448 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.
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About the game
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: Video Card with 64MB dedicated memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 106 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Blacksad: Under the Skin ($19.99, scores 53) and The Case of the Golden Idol ($17.99, scores 72) both outscore it.
More about Post Mortem
Critics scored it 71, but players land 14 points lower at 57 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
This site sampled 205 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 11, 11:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is a pain to get running correctly. Save yourself the hassle and use dgVoodoo. Cap the program refresh rate to 60. There is a bug when you get to the second story house office in the second act which will cause *all notes* for the rest of the game to become uninteractable. If you encounter this, reload an earlier save and use every single interaction point in the house before opening the desk. This game is...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's a decent game, especially for it's time. I enjoyed this game although I quite literally can't tab out at all and enter the game again, it'll just crash. So I had to stay playing the game the entire time. No video options help either. I lost data twice both 30 minutes in and 10 minutes in because of this, not realizing it just crashed both times. I like the story and the vibe of the game, although some things...
this will require some workarounds to play, though dgvoodoo2 seemed to work after a lot of messing around with it And any alt tabbing will break the game the game is point and click but you can spin the camera by putting your cursor on the edge of the screen, which isn't any better than the usual click to move in such games as the cursor can quite often go off screen Getting the right information can require pretty...
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No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Post Mortem scores 4/100 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/46550/post-mortemReviews 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.