Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
Worth it · Narrative · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 0.8h 0.8h to 100%
- Value
- $3.74/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 5,552 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Graphics card with at least 500MB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 64 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 40 percent off still sits 20 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard ($2.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Pilgrims ($6.99, scores 67).
More about Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
73 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 451 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 2,844 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 94 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/963000/frog-detective-1-the-haunted-islandReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.