Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition
Worth it · Narrative · 2017
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.2h 8.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.92/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 904 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
Haunted by mysterious curses from her orphanage days, Mary is finally forced to confront the truth behind her past. Step into the enchanted Netherworld—a realm where destiny is written in blood and every choice shapes her fate. An award-winning adventure blending mystery, emotion, and dark fantasy.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was June 2018. Across all 84 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, When The Past Was Around ($7.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Adventure Escape Mysteries (free, scores 63).
More about Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition
None of the 252 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to April 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 108 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
53% start to 11% 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
Darkarta is a very polished HOG with an Indian setting. Some of the puzzles are frustrating to solve but the actual HOG parts are great, with no odd names for items.
1 more review, not recommended
I forgot why I had stopped playing this one so many years ago, only to reinstall and in barely 20min remembered why... The game has serious issues with registering clicks, it constantly sends you out of puzzle and hop screens. Interactable zones are never clear, and the design is horridly obtuse. Oh it has all the features of a HOPA, like fast travel, collectible objects, a hackneyed cliche story of love, of course...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/601530/darkarta-a-broken-heart-s-quest-collector-s-editionReviews 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.