Lost Grimoires 3: The Forgotten Well

Lost Grimoires 3: The Forgotten Well

Skip · Narrative · 2017

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$14.99Skip

On its price record

$8.06Fair

Length
3.2h 3.4h to 100%
Value
$4.68/hr
Reviews
81% of 203 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.06 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 12 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

Raising the score
Engagement65% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.68/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews81% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 79% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 85 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Save the kingdom from curse!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 64 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 31 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan ($14.99, scores 70) and Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride ($14.99, scores 65) both outscore it.

More about Lost Grimoires 3: The Forgotten Well

Steam's global achievement data puts 65 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

The drop-off

73% start to 65% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam 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
3 when we last checked, on Oct 19, 15:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Nice background graphic and story. The puzzles feels randomly combined and illogical at times, easy to miss elements and progress by attempts.
RedPredatorNot recommendedafter 3.6hFeb 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Possibly the weakest Lost Grimoires game of the series. When it came to the first two games, I had zero issues, with this game I kept getting lost, missing objects that were constantly blended in with similar colors, and just having spent way too much time backtracking to scenes that didn't contain any objects but it would let me click back into. The worst part of the is game overall though is the story. The entire...
WileyNot recommendedafter 5.3hJun 2024Read on Steam
I mean...it's not going to revolutionize the world of Hidden Object games...but it's a solid enough entry, and it's world's better than Brave Giant's games (also published by the once great Artifex Mundi). The graphics are acceptable at least as far as the background/scenery goes, and the character artwork isn't awful (it's not great either!), the animations are admittedly pretty weak, the plot is hopelessly...
jgarthclRecommendedafter 3.0hMay 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Lost Grimoires 3: The Forgotten Well scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/740090/lost-grimoires-3-the-forgotten-well
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Reviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperWorld-Loom
PublisherArtifex Mundi
GenreNarrative
Released2017
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13