Gloom
Fair · Roguelike · 2017
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.4h 25.7h to 100%
- Value
- $2.27/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 606 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 65 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Afflicted by severe amnesia, you drift deep into the Common Dream. You scour for the lost pages of the Necronomicon, while clinging on to any little purpose you have left. Faced with mad dreamers, horrible abominations and eldritch deities, you feel drawn to the dark Abyss deep within.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB graphics, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 87 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 9 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 45 percent of the games it competes with. Among the games that feel like it, Sundered®: Eldritch Edition ($19.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Roguelands ($9.99, scores 52).
More about Gloom
Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 149 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 4.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 26, 5.8 times as much.
The drop-off
91% start to 2% 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
Once you get the general pattern of all enemies and bosses in this game, the only real way to die is when you get impatient by the overall repetitiveness of each and every run. Realistically speaking, the majority of items and weapons (a lot of which being a direct downgrade to the base sword and gun) in this game don't do much and lifesteal and stamina regen as mechanics are the vastly dominant stats because they...
2 more reviews
An outstanding mix of nail biting action roguelike and memorable cosmic horror which always pulls you back for just one more run.
Extremely atmospheric and stylish little game. Challenging and engaging, makes you want to do "just another run"! RNG could be rather remorseless and parry mechanics are confusing, but those are probably the only things I didn't like.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Gloom scores 53/100 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/619280/gloomReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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.