Mary Skelter: Nightmares
Fair · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 41.1h 65.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.61/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 597 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. Calls like this were right 83% 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
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
The "Jail" suddenly appeared a number of years ago, sinking the city deep into the ground. There, this impenetrable living prison 666 metres beneath the surface, held power over eerie creatures called "Marchens." Within the prison was a boy named Jack - living a life of suffering...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 11 compatible graphics card, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
43 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon Cliff ($1.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Bloomtown: A Different Story ($24.99, scores 60).
More about Mary Skelter: Nightmares
None of the 302 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
83% start to 5% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 12:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Already played it in the past (around 2018-2019~ iirc); albeit not fully. Having finished it now, definitely recommend it^^. Red Riding Hood > All other Blood Maidens ^~^
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
a surprisingly good dungeon crawler. a lot of variety in party construction and combat encounters compared to many crawlers. it was fun to keep testing out different characters and classes to see what works. the blood skelter system is the main attraction though: the characters enter a kind of powerful berserker mode, and combat is about utilising this while still trying to retain control. each dungeon had a...
Mary Skelter Nightmare is a First Person Dungeon Crawling JRPG ala the style of Wizardry and Etrain Odyssey. Its uniqueness is derived from a focus on storytelling and the blood mechanic. You play as Jack, the leader of a group of Blood Maidens, girls who are fairy tale personified and made to travel a jail with various zones to try and escape into the real world. Unlike the other games of its genre, the party...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mary Skelter: Nightmares scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/837610/mary-skelter-nightmaresReviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.