Creature in the Well
Skip · Action · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$14.99Skip
On its price record
$5.61Fair
- Length
- 4.3h 6.2h to 100%
- Value
- $3.49/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 346 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.61 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 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
Unlock the power of an ancient facility and face the ominous, all-seeing Creature in this unique pinball-inspired hack & slash!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 / ATI Radeon HD 6870, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 25 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 27 percent on value. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DEMON'S TILT ($19.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Last Epoch ($34.99, scores 38).
The drop-off
89% start to 15% 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
What players say
This game's really fun! It takes a couple hours to really get going but once it does, it scratches that pinball/bullet-hell itch you didn't know you needed. I'm about halfway through but this games goes down so smooth, each level only taking about 20-30 minutes, that I know I'll see it through to the end. Well worth playing!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is pretty unique and I love most parts about it. The art, soundtrack and gameplay are great. I also really like the setting even though the story was mostly a thin facade. The movement feels a bit slow as your "dash" is already not that fast and then you can't even use it while charging up. So during combat you need to either fight or evade and switching back to fighting requires an energy ball near you...
this is the most artistically beautiful game ive seen in years, but i cant recommend anyone to play it because the game play and mechanics are so incredibly inconsistent, boring, repetitive, and buggy i have seen in years.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Creature in the Well scores 40/100 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/852300/creature-in-the-wellReviews 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.