Darkestville Castle
BANGER · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.74.
- Length
- 5.1h 6.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.73/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 729 positive
Full price
Today
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Darkestville Castle — a darkly comedic point-and-click adventure where you play as a sarcastic demon. Solve clever puzzles, manipulate idiots, and bring chaos back to Darkestville, because being evil is just more fun.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0 compatible, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 77 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $3.74 at 75 percent off still sits 151 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. The nearest things to it, Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010) ($5.99, scores 79) and Botanicula ($14.99, scores 68), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Darkestville Castle
Steam's global achievement data puts 42 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 330 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
76% start to 42% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 03:52 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Excellent classic point and click adventure game. Comparable to the Monkey Island series, with a bit simpler graphics and humor, but a great story, characters and music. Highly recommended. :)
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Funny so far! XD However, I have a wish to be implemented in the settings. I have normal sight, but it is hard to read thin font texts with very little contrast. Please add this function, then I can continue and enjoy the game more. Because of this, I give 3/5 stars, because this setting should be easy to implement.
Wow, this was hard to give it a thumbs up or down, but overall it's more on the negative side for me. Let's start with what i liked - the graphics are nice, animations are smooth, voice acting is OK, the main character is annoying, but likeable and some of the jokes are funny and the story is - while very cliché - OK. Let's see the problems from smaller to bigger ones: - music - a lot of Monkey Island rip-off. It...
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Cite this score
Darkestville Castle scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/689900/darkestville-castleReviews 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.