The Land of Pain
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 3.5h 4h to 100%
- Value
- $3.43/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 794 positive
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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
Something strange appears in the woods. Lost in a dark and unknown place, survive an unrelenting enemy, solve puzzles, and uncover the ancient mystery that’s befallen this land in this Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror adventure.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 460 1GB/Radeon 5850 1GB, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 96 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SOMA ($29.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs ($19.99, scores 20).
More about The Land of Pain
This site sampled 383 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 108 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
What players say
THE LAND OF PAIN First game by developer Alessandro Guzzo, I was more or so invested in the game and it was mostly enjoyable throughout the whole playthrough. The Lovecraftian story was engaging, the mystery of exploration and the creepiness of the adventure while avoiding that monster! Yeah... that one annoying and irritating entity that chases you around and doesn't let go! What's most annoying is if you are...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Madd Vladd brought me here xD - Despite the age of the game, the game looks great and the atmosphere is next level.
I am sorry for giving this game a thumbs down, since it's made by a solo dev (from the credits, the only other ppl listed worked on translation/proof-reading), and I give kudos to the dev. But the problem is that the game is tedious, mainly because of puzzles requiring you to go and back forward a lot. And calling them puzzles is a stretch since all require finding item A and get it to point B, that's it, there was...
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Cite this score
The Land of Pain scores 31/100 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/568930/the-land-of-painReviews 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.