Phantasmagoria
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.4h 7.3h to 100%
- Value
- $1.56/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 545 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.90 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
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About the game
Master storyteller Roberta Williams challenges you to experience the ultimate interactive nightmare.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
80 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Harvester ($0.89, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats CAYNE (free, scores 55).
More about Phantasmagoria
2 of the 280 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
What players say
Even if 30 years have passed since it's original release, this is still one of the best point and click games ever made in full motion video.
2 more reviews
Absolute classic, This game is a bit cheese in certain parts and can be easy to get turned around especially in chapter seven but the game was originaly made in the 90s so would take it with a grain of salt. Characters, music and cutscenes are very good but ran into a bug where the mouse curser would get stuck in the item box portion of the screen. Might be a Dosbox issue but only happened once in my playthrough...
I played this game as a teenager in the early 90s and never completed it. I looked for it for YEARS, asked for it at every game store I visited. 20 years later, I found it here on steam and finally finished! It is weird, creepy, and graphic, but the storyline is excellent, it literally stuck with me for 20 years hoping to resolve it. Love this game ,should play it again soon.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Phantasmagoria scores 61/100 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/501990/phantasmagoriaReviews 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.