Mad Father
Worth it · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.09.
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $3.22/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated graphics, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
Witness the tale of a most foolish family. A remake of the classic horror exploration game makes its way to Steam.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in April 2019. 90 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $8.09. The record reaches that level 48 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Yume Nikki (free, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Decarnation ($14.99, scores 59).
Steam's global achievement data puts 47 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 424 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 323 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
83% start to 47% 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
Players
14 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 11:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
4 Hours of gameplay, The Most fun i have had in awhile with a horror game, I Would give it a 10/10 on lore but horror by itself its a 7/10 Would Play Again
cult classic for a reason. (peak music and artstyle, puzzles were okay and good story) 8.5/10 for me
i love this game so much and my review may be biased due to the game being nostalgic to me. but i love this game so much and tbh i recommend it
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mad Father scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/483980/mad-fatherReviews 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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