The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Skip · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.4h
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 7870, 80 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was February 2026. It has been discounted 48 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 66 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, As Dusk Falls ($29.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats The Quarry ($59.99, scores 38).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 739 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.4 hours; clearing it takes 19, which is 4.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
51% start to 2% 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
101 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 18:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I don't get the hate that this game is getting. I enjoyed every bit of it. The story can be a little predictable from the start, but I still enjoyed it. If you get into this game expecting a serious story or well-built characters, don't. This is what makes me enjoy Supermassive games. They have the flavor of watching those old-school horror movies where all the characters are cringy idiots who have the survival...
Среднячок, твист неудивителен, загадка была простой, но слили на финали блонду( Отличная игра-кино скоротать пару вечеров.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Meda Rating: 4/10 - Bad Flashbang Simulator 2019 , I mean Man of Medan , is a supermassive disappointment and a waste of perfectly good assets. The game looks Fine enough and I think they actually manage to create a Good atmosphere with the environments. I also like the whole framing through the curator. But that's pretty much where what I like about this game ends. On an...
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Cite this score
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/939850/the-dark-pictures-anthology-man-of-medanReviews 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 18, price as of Oct 1.
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