The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery (Steam Game) Steam logo

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Play as both Gabriel and Grace as they are dispatched to Munich to solve a series of mutilation murders thought to be the work of werewolves.

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Release DateAug 29, 2016
Price$ 5.99
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)89.5% (very positive) Top 30% / 89.7%  Top 25%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)81.3% Top 20% / 82%  Top 15%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)181  Top 30% / 232  Top 30%
Curators33 reviews  Top 20%
Median Play Time16.7 hours  Top 10%
Play Time per Dollar2.8 hours  Top 5%
Followers1.1K 
Owners± 83K  Top 20%
Copies Sold± 7.4K 
Gross Revenue ($)± 28.7K 

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This graph shows The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery's Steam rating and reviews between August 2016 and December 2023. Steam's rating is varying from 92.8% (October 2021) to 84% (August 2017).

With its 232 reviews Top 30%, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery could be considered a decent success for an indie game. Peaks in the chart suggest that major updates or discounts happened.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery and the proportion of players they represent.

This donut chart displays the languages of The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery's reviewers. The most popular language is English (66%), followed by German (10%). There is a healthy diversity in the review languages, with 19 different languages represented. The game has been translated in only one language (English), it's always good to have more translations to access other markets.

Time Played

Chart displaying The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time played in The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time in game is not bad at all, with 27 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 1.6 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. The negative review time is high (median is 11 hours), it can be a sign that The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery crashes after a while or becomes too repetitive or difficult towards the end. You could check if there is an explanation in the Players' feedback section.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Story
  • Acting
  • Puzzles
  • Locations
  • Music
  • Effort
  • Passionate development
  • Masterful storytelling
  • Gorgeous soundtrack
  • Interesting dark storyline
  • Dated graphics
  • Video cutscenes quality
  • Crashes
  • Missed clues
  • Slow pacing
  • Labeling interactive objects
  • Puzzle difficulty
  • Bad acting
  • Not clear indication of importance
  • Fairly predictable

The intention behind these pros & cons isn't to establish a balanced evaluation of the game, but rather to assist developers in identifying enhancement opportunities. The game's score of 89.5%  Top 30% should be considered while evaluating them.

Take into account that list was generated using AI on a small sample of The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery's Steam review data, it is not meant to be exhaustive. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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