Glass Masquerade

Glass Masquerade

BANGER · Short indie · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER at $4.99. Typically $1.24 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.

Cost per hour▼
$1.25/hr
ReviewsS
97% of 7,118
Genre rank
Top 1% Short indie
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.

Time and effort

Main story
4h
To 100%
6.3h 1.6x the story
Achievements
32

Price and sales

Sales
57 on record
Typical cut
65% off
Steam low
$1.24 November 2018
Sale every
56d last October 2026
All-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
8 now
Cheaper than
32% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

69% start to 35% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

57 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 65 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Glass Masquerade 2: Illusions ($4.99, scores 81) and Spirit of the North ($19.99, scores 45).

More about Glass Masquerade

Of the 419 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 425 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.25/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds3 of 419 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

I honestly really enjoyed Glass Masquerade. Glass Masquerade is one of those games that feels less like a challenge and more like a little escape. There's something strangely satisfying about watching a pile of random pieces slowly turn into a beautiful stained-glass design. The stained-glass artwork is gorgeous, the music is calming, and putting each piece into place is surprisingly satisfying. I liked that the...
SO{R}ELRecommendedafter 19hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
As simple as it sound by its description: literally just glass weirdly-shaped puzzles to pass the time or do while watching something. Fun and satisfying, with a good theme chosen
GibiPRecommendedafter 4.7hAug 2026Read on Steam
A beautiful, unique take on jigsaw puzzles. Gorgeous art, intuitive gameplay and incredible music.
NowiesoRecommendedafter 14hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Welcome to Glass Masquerade - an artistic puzzle game inspired by Art Deco & stained glass artisans of the 20th century. You need to combine hidden glass pieces to unveil clocks and themes exhibited by various cultures of the world at the 'International Times Exhibition'
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD4000, AMD HD 6550D (or higier), 256Mb video memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Glass Masquerade scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/511470/glass-masquerade
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Reviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperOnyx Lute
PublisherOnyx Lute
GenreShort indie
Released2016
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements32