The Caligula Effect: Overdose
Skip · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $49.99.
- Length
- 26.7h 73.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.87/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 620 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 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
Mobius. An idyllic world that lets people forget about the pain and problems of reality. Created by a sentient vocaloid program, μ (Mu), reality and fantasy have become blurred, allowing people to relive their high school years in bliss -- but just how real is a virtual happiness?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 450 GTS or AMD Radeon 6770 HD, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
48 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 65 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 50 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™ ($29.99, scores 73) and Ikenfell ($19.99, scores 74) both outscore it.
More about The Caligula Effect: Overdose
Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 26.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 2 of the 366 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 26.7 hours; clearing it takes 74, which is 2.8 times the campaign.
The drop-off
90% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
This is a hidden gem, at least for me. It's a FuRyu game, so as expected the budget was a T-Rex & a Go-Fish card. Because of this, the graphics are middling & a lot of character animations are kinda choppy. If you can look past these things, the game opens up to you. The story of the game is genuinely interesting, with each chapter of the main story involving a primary focus of 2 characters at a time (1 Go-Home Club...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Honesty, after finishing this game, I don't know if deserves a thumbs up or a thumbs down. If you were to ask me about 70% into the game, I would have said I hated it--it was excruciating to get through. The game itself is ugly (the anime they advertise consists of like no more than 30 seconds) and while I enjoyed the music, the same song loops through each dungeon and it quickly becomes nauseating. There is tons of...
I play till getting all the achievement just to spite on it. Would not recommend it At least I don't have to "befriend" the 500+ npc for an achievement, that's the only saving grace
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
The Caligula Effect: Overdose scores 30/100 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/889600/the-caligula-effect-overdoseReviews 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.