寄居隅怪奇事件簿 Hermitage Strange Case Files
Fair · Short indie · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 20h
- Value
- $0.50/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
都市的夜晚并不安宁。浮华背后，暗潮在阴影中涌动。旧书店『Hermitage』的店主不幸被卷入了种种神秘事件。越是接近答案，他见到的真相却愈发诡异。疑云之下，一切都指向了“那些”超越常理的——危机渐渐逼近，在谣言与谎言间劈开道路，追寻自己的“结局”吧！
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was March 2023. It has been discounted 61 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 65 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut ($6.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats The Vanishing of Ethan Carter ($19.99, scores 52).
This site sampled 510 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 192 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
68% start to 3% 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
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 17:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Not the usual VN you would expect. Visuals are semi-interactable. Interesting story and characters so far. Looks like dev put a lot of thoughts and effort into this game. Very well-made for a VN. $14 is over priced though. Why can't NA store get the same listing price as CN store ;-; Edit: Just finished the game. The story is so good $14 is under priced.
Hermitage: Strange Case Files, developed and published by Arrowiz, is a visual novel that weaves mystery, psychological horror, and the supernatural into a haunting narrative set within the confines of a small, eerie bookstore. At first glance, it presents itself as a calm refuge from the chaos of the world, but beneath its shelves of forbidden tomes and cryptic volumes lies a series of dark secrets waiting to be...
对话真的尴尬得我脚趾扣除一栋海边观景大别墅，文笔怎么会这么差啊？？！错句病句不说，这一股中不中洋不洋的味道冲得我快进都觉得伤眼。既然非得是中国背景，那角色满口不离"前辈"还动不动鞠躬是什么毛病啊？！
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Cite this score
寄居隅怪奇事件簿 Hermitage Strange Case Files scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/836640/hermitage-strange-case-filesReviews 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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