The Curse of Monkey Island
BANGER · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $6.99.
- Length
- 7.8h
- Value
- $0.90/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7, 41 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit?
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.39, set in August 2022. 39 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition ($9.99, scores 81) and Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ ($9.99, scores 63) both come in lower.
The math says it holds its tier up to $10.43, and you are being asked for $6.99.
The press gave it 89; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 365 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 384 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Players
24 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 17:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Ron Gilbert did great work with the first two games, but they weren't as good as this one because his priorities were always about remaining as a spoof parody game writer. As biased as I may be because I played all the games when I was young, this game still managed to truly balance the act of ridiculous and the serious, it feels a more immersive and fun experience than the first two games, and Gilbert's return to...
29 years ago I played this classic for the first time. Every story beat and every puzzle solution is permanently etched into my brain meat. Primordial memories. So I've decided I'll be playing this game every 10 years to test for Alzheimer's. When the Monkey Island memories start to go, I'll know the end is nigh.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Curse of Monkey Island scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/730820/the-curse-of-monkey-islandReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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