Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 24, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.4h 4h to 100%
- Value
- $4.41/hr
- Reviews
- 72% of 336 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.
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
About the game
Lead the Police investigation in the afterlife!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB VRAM, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
76 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 70 percent. On the same math Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek ($14.99, scores 52) and Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden ($14.99, scores 57) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
The drop-off
78% start to 22% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
The game works (which I wish I could take for granted), and the puzzles were pretty good, so I'll recommend it. The protagonist, setting, mystery, lore, and killer's motives are all annoying, make no sense, or are just plain dumb, so be warned of that. The writer really thought they were doing something deep with this one, and didn't realize the inconsistent tone and the protagonist's barely explained superpowers...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Very smooth gameplay and no gamebreaker riddles. A relaxing experience for a rainy day. Only thing I did not like was the mix of reality and fantasy as the story is a murder case investigation and I found the fantasy episodes out of place. But still a solid title from the publisher.
Yeah, this is...not one of the better HOGs. A coherent, halfway decent story - although calling it "Ghost Files" is a stretch; the only supernatural bits are some odd trips to Limbo - weighed down by bad puzzles and a frankly unhinged amount of typos and/or translation issues, like a map where a restroom is labeled as "friendly room." The typos and puzzles are what really drags this game down, IMO. The bad voice...
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Cite this score
Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt scores 24/100 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/599560/ghost-files-the-face-of-guiltReviews 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.