Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 10, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 8.3h 11.2h to 100%
- Value
- $2.41/hr
- Reviews
- 63% of 718 positive
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Buy now or wait
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
Inspired by the award-winning board game franchise, Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace is an investigation game served with turn-based combat, set in the cult universe of H.P. Lovecraft.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5770, 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or better, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
40 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 90 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Look Outside ($9.99, scores 98) and DREDGE ($24.99, scores 72) both outscore it.
More about Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 507 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 355 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 161 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
64% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
I'm an avid reader of Lovecraft, and a player of Fantasy Flight's "Mansions of Madness" and Arkham Horror LCG, so I'm very much the target audience for this video game. This is largely an on-rails story engine interspersed with turn-based combat, and it's great fun. Progression through each leve requires you to walk through the environment, clicking on highlighted objects. Through this, you gain clues about the...
1 more review
I'm saying recommended with a very strong caveat: don't play this game if you're not already a fan of the Arkham Horror franchise. I'm going to be completely blunt: by an objective measure, this is a mediocre game at best, lacking complexity. It might be because the devs just didn't want to pour too much money into it, but the easy combat and linear exploration and "investigation" keeps this firmly in the...
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Cite this score
Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace scores 10/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/840210/arkham-horror-mother-s-embraceReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.