Metropolis: Lux Obscura
Skip · Short indie · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$7.99Skip
On its price record
$3.92Fair
- Length
- 1.6h 4.1h to 100%
- Value
- $4.99/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 489 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.92 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $5.59 (30% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 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
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About the game
A unique game with a film noir atmosphere, seductive wanton women, and dirty dangerous secrets. Gameplay is based on a motion comic with a non-linear plot mixed with MATCH3 puzzle fights.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 9 Compatible Graphics Card, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
41 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Sexy Brutale ($19.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Plug & Play ($3.99, scores 35).
More about Metropolis: Lux Obscura
Finishing takes 1.6 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
79% start to 26% 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
Bejeweled with comic book cutscenes. Well drawn, well acted, but super short, though you can waste some time in the repetitive bejeweled parts. It's got 4 different endings, but there's not much replay value.
2 more reviews
This game desperately wants to be Sin City. The art is very close. The "stories" not so much. Probably translation errors. Wish it were longer and some of the mechanics not so frustrating. If you're here for the art though, it is fantastic. The rest is passable.
Metropolis: Lux Obscura, developed and published by Ktulhu Solutions, is one of those rare indie games that dares to combine two wildly different genres-the gritty world of noir storytelling and the methodical logic of match-three puzzle mechanics. It tells the story of Jon Lockhart, a man recently released from prison who returns to the city that betrayed him, searching for answers, revenge, and perhaps a fragment...
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Cite this score
Metropolis: Lux Obscura scores 42/100 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/671390/metropolis-lux-obscuraReviews 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.