The Black Masses
Skip · Multiplayer · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 4, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 58% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 TI or AMD Radeon R7 370, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Black Masses is an open world first-person fantasy co-op RPG. You find yourself stranded on an island corrupted by a strange black substance. Its unsuspecting inhabitants, once a strong flourishing society, have been possessed into mindless creatures, bent on the destruction of life.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.79, set in March 2026. It has been discounted 25 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 66 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners ($19.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Mortal Online (free, scores 2).
Of the 734 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 273 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 369 reviews written there were positive, against 58 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 28, 7.0 times as much.
The drop-off
99% start to <1% 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
1 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 12:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I liked the sound track. I Recommend this for the sound track and a bit of skull smashing.
Fun game with a huge world. Needs a lot of tinkering with graphic settings to clean it up. Have to set v-sync from your card.
Game is flawed but it is nice enough. I believe the developers lost inspiration, mid through making of this game. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME AT FULL PRICE. I recommend getting this game at a discount. There is enough game and gameplay for couple of euros.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Black Masses scores 4/100 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/992910/the-black-massesReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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