Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One
Worth it · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $1.60/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 369 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.79 (40% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each 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
Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.
Minimum specs
Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
34 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Left on Read (free, scores 55).
More about Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One
None of the 222 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 28, 06:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's been a long time since I had been engaged so much into a piece of media. I haven't played any interactive fiction before, and I am mind-blown. I have always been a lover of all things supernatural, with vampires holding a special place in my heart. As such, this book truly spoke to me, as an avid reader and as a gamer. The best way to describe how this book made me feel, is "It felt like I was 10 again, and my...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This review is for the Wayhaven Chronicles as a whole, of which, at this time there are three books out with a 4th slated for release later this year. The TL;DR version is play it! You almost certainly won't regret it! I actually shot myself in the foot here in that this and Fernweh Saga book 1 were my first ever interactive fiction games outside of the more normalized visual novel or text heavy CRPG. Now I've all...
Slow pacing, shallow characters, stupid protagonist. Maybe the author was going for dramatic irony when so much of the story is letting the player know what's happening while the character is too dense to connect the dots? But it's just annoying.
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/800600/wayhaven-chronicles-book-oneReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.