Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love
Fair · Narrative · 2019
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10h 11.1h to 100%
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 429 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.75 or less.
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
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a satirical point and click inspired by the classic adventure games. It smuggles you out of your comfort zone and throws you into the middle of a Cold War spy intrigue - where there’s an even bigger game being played …
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB Video RAM, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 57 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Little Inferno ($7.49, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Dude, Stop ($14.99, scores 53).
More about Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love
This site sampled 290 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
82% start to 11% 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 me realize that games have 'aura', a distinctive atmosphere, and I didn't like Irony Curtain's aura which was satire of an ideology. It is also obsessed with buttocks, which isn't funny to me. So my reaction to the game was distress and offense which made me not want to play it, and I didn't finish it. And I am really happy that is was only $3.99.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
It's been a very long time since I played this game but I'm still mad about it. The whole game is just propaganda in the stupidest way. Forgive me for not remembering many details, I'm just gonna talk about what stuck with me the most. Everything bad that happens is because of communism (but not really, there is no communism). "Because communism bad!" is an argument (I think the ONLY argument) that gets repeated...
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love truly shines by fixing what often plagues point-and-click adventures: baffling, illogical puzzles. Almost every challenge in this game feels intuitive, and impressively, many even offer multiple solutions. Coupled with charming visuals, laugh-out-loud dialogue, and a thematic setting that hits close to home, it's clear there's a lot to love. So, why the negative review...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love scores 56/100 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/866190/irony-curtain-from-matryoshka-with-loveReviews 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.