Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi

The appeal of Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi is its replayable castle: rooms and characters shift while you choose your route through single-player survival horror. At $0.74 from Steam, the decision mainly depends on whether you want this older, English-supported Steam PC experience now. Steam Cloud complements the solo mode. If you are not in a hurry, the next announced Steam sale window provides a timing reference without promising participation or a discount. The next announced Steam sale window is Dec 17, 2026 – Jan 4, 2027; until then, buying at $0.74 on Steam remains an immediate option.

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90%Steam Reviews1.6K reviews70Metacritic/100

Released: Mar 6, 2014

Horror · Vampires · Action · FPS · Gothic

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01About Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi is an intense first-person shooter with survival-horror elements in a vast gothic castle. Randomly generated architecture changes rooms and character locations on every playthrough. Explore nonlinearly, fight vampires with holy water, crucifixes, stakes, flintlocks, and muskets, and watch for enemies that appear without warning. The Steam PC version supports single-player and Steam Cloud. English is listed for the interface, full audio, and subtitles. It was released on March 6, 2014. 90%% of 1,592 reviews are positive.

Credits

Developer

Idol FX

Publisher

Funbox Media Ltd

Steam player reviews

90%positiveVery Positive1,592 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$0.442023-10-26 · GamersGateBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
English	Yes	Yes	Yes

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-29

02Before you buy

Play modes

The Steam PC version supports single-player and Steam Cloud.

Language and audio

English is listed for the interface, full audio, and subtitles.

03Frequently asked questions

What kind of game is it?

It is a first-person shooter with survival-horror elements set in a gothic castle.

What changes between playthroughs?

The castle layout and character locations change on each playthrough.

How does combat work?

Some vampires can only be killed with specific weapons.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.

RecommendedSteam player

03/06/2014

This is my favorite PC game. I've grown up with games like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame etc. Then i discovered Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi. This game is for me a synonym to survival horror game. It has perfect atmosphere and suitable weapons against Evil. WARNING! This game has bad graphics and sound. It's buggy as hell. Hit detection screws you over. Have fun.Show moreShow less

2.9 hours at review225 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

03/23/2017

Great game but suffers from balancing issues, difficulty spikes and poor controls. I wish someone could remaster it.Show moreShow less

1.7 hours at review94 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

10/31/2014

Yet another game scarier than Evil Within.Show moreShow less

0.8 hours at review195 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

12/28/2014

I don't get what all the reviews are about. Obviously terrible graphics which is to be expected, but then no resolution options besides a hack you need to install online. No saves whatsoever as you have to remember to quicksave or all progress is lost. There is no story, you just wander around a castle and try to find your family. There is no map and no indication for where people are, you just pick one of the 5 ways to go and then backtrack and go the other way till you find them. There are many gameplay problems. You pick up health even when you cant use it and it makes it wasted. You also can pick up ammo, even if you cant use it, again wasting it. You can only carry 15 bullets for your pistol which makes no sense. The combat is just terrible. You use your fists or a sword and just mash attack and sometimes it hits them and sometimes it doesn't due to the poor hitboxes. Sometimes while you're hitting you they can suddenly also attack you and sometimes that can't, showing the lack of any consistency in the system. And since each hit does like 20 damage and you will be fighting 2-3 guys in a row its just stupid. There are spawners that just keep popping out guys and the only way to destroy them is attack the portal, but you have to kill the guys or you die, but they keep coming. Its annoying and poorly done. Also the guys take 20 hits which makes combat tedious and long without reward. I get it that the game is trying to be survival horror, but I have played games that actually accomplish it and they don't need to make terrible combat and way too strong enemies and a lack of being able to hold ammo and wasting resources. You die so quickly and easily, but since you can't sneak or avoid people..... you just die, hope you saved, reload, and repeat. Apparently weapons can randomly be in spots so just based on luck you can have guns sooner or not, which is dumb. Also I was playing on medium, not even hard. I don't know if it's just for nostalgia's sake people rate this because they have fond memories from childhood, but like many old games there are dumb and poorly implemented and outdated mechanics. You also find a bunch of gunpowder and bullets but you can't do anything with them at that point of the game. Not to mention your family can die and you lose the game and there is nothing you can do but restart the game completely since you can't beat it. Having the built-in timer is annoying and further ruins the game because instead of being able to play the survival horror at your own pace, you have to run quickly or you lose. Always having to hurry and pay attention to the timer ruins the atmosphere. 3/10Show moreShow less

9.7 hours at review28 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

02/12/2016

Seeing how all the negative reviews get 0 out of whatever for the reasons unknown to me, i don't expect my review to be welcomed any differently, yet i'm gonna speak up regardless. Yes, i don't understand how this thing keeps being called great, awesome, cool, with great storyline, great graphics. etc. And no, i don't get it how this horrible abomination of a video game even has what, 4 stars out of 5? It's a great mystery to me. First of all, i'm no way into bashing old games for being... you know, old. I'm an old fan(g) myself. I play a lot of old games. For example, i just re-played Clive Barker's Undying for like... 10th time because of nostalgia. I keep returning to Undying because it offers a unique and interesting gameplay, different ways of approaching it, something new every time. One of these games that you can replay over and over again and everytime you would discover something new, something you haven't noticed before. Creative stuff that used to prevail in old games, you know, some really creative interesting ideas. And it's even older than this one. But i know for sure, i won't be returning to Nosferatu, no way. So i was looking forward to a game to satisfy my strong urge to play a good old school shooter. And i saw this, i saw all the good reviews and i thought: "Hell, how could i even miss it back in years?!". Now that i've seen what it was that i thought i missed... Oh boy, was i thankful i did. So, what do i start with. Boy, oh boy, the choice is wide. First of all, the very first thing i didn't like was the menu. It's simply uncomfortable. Pressing "ESC" doesn't return you back to game or a previous part of the menu. That's uncomfortable. No video settings? You gotta be kidding me. Control settings? Please, there's almost nothing to customize. For some reason, you can run and jump, but you can't crouch. Dafuq, really? Combat system, absolute joke, from the start we have a sword cane that just looks like a simple medieval sword. I have no idea where they saw a sword cane here. Movements are clumsy, they stutter. There are only 2 "types" of attack with that "sword cane" and they stutter as hell and look very poorly animated. Mechanics... I don't get it. The protagonist can run like a cheetah for a few seconds but unable to perform anything but two pathetic looking sword moves? Dafuq? You see, do you already see that thin line that's been broken, right? A protagonist that can on one side do something... extraordinary where most people would suck a huge dog's ♥♥♥♥ but on the other hand can't do something simple? Nah, i'm not buying it. Then, when (IF) you get a first firing weapon... Yes, in this game you don't just simply find new weapons, you gotta work ridiculously hard to earn'em, which is not a compliment in that case. Even on Medium! The firing and reloading animations are horrible. They're just horrible, hands down. They lack. The game is so bugged, half the time bullets don't even hit the target unless you manage to make a straight line of a couple of meters between you and an enemy, they stuck at doorways; stuck at furniture; plus there is no areal damage. Doesn't matter where you aim-to the head or leg, you'll get the same result. There's no aiming (ironsights) btw and mostly no alternative attacks, so yeah, your right mouse button is pretty much useless most of the time, animation is very broken and again, it "stutters", literally. Comparing to Clive Barker's Undying, this game simply seems poorly made in general. Enemies. Mostly the same all the time, appear randomly. Ugly, bugged, move and attack too "sharply", too "fast" in terms of movements, there's no smoothness. Environment? Now i have no idea whose idea it was to make the castle somewhat random all the time, but it doesn't help at all. If it was supposed to make the gameplay somewhat new with every new game, this idea has failed hard. It pisses off much more than keeps you interested or entertained because with every new game there's just more randomness, annoying backtracking and mess in general cause you simply don't understand where to go and what to do since there's no map or hints of any kind. AI is horrible. I spent good 15 minutes trying to escort some old nag down the stairs cause the damn thing literally kept stopping at every corner saying the same damn thing. Don't get me wrong, i absolutely LOVE old atmospheric games like Call of Cthulhu, Clive Barker's Undying, Cold Fear, Quake, Scratches, Penumbra, Dementium II, Gorky 17 etc, i freaking love them, the unique atmosphere they provide. I love all these old places, survival aspect etc, but this game is just broken beyond repair, it's terrible. It looks terrible and it plays terrible. One of those rare cases when a video game just plain straight pissed me off. I could keep on and on forever mentioning other broken aspects like an absolutely useless ability to pick up health packs even at full health, therefore wasting them - Dafuq?; the fact that they are all different sizes and there's absolutely no way to tell which will it be: small one, medium one or large one until you actually pick up one and see how much health it restores - Dafuq?!; or compass being useless in constantly changing environment; the timer that keeps ticking, oh the timer! If you didn't know, there are several family members that are being kept as hostages in an old mansion and if you don't save good half of them in like an hour and a half of REAL TIME the game ends. I read it on Wiki, since i was too sick of this game to actually test it out myself. Yeah, just like that, apparently it's called a storyline here. Needless to say how much this approach to a gameplay encourages players to explore the place rather than just run like crazy through the levels... Oh wait, that's what you gonna be doing; or the ability to reload your weapon even if it doesn't need reloading - DAFUQ?!?! No, really, even if your weapon is loaded, you can still reload it, therefore wasting ammo, i'm not joking... And the list keeps on going. So, if you are feeling nostalgic, like i was, try Clive Barker's Undying or AvP 1999 for that instance, they are so much better than this broken crap. 3\10 at best IMO. I fail to see what all the good reviews are about, people will just buy anything these days. P.S. Oh, i remembered why i gave up on this game. Last time i tried to enjoy it, i got killed by an opening door. The horror, indeed. P.S.S. Steam says i can't post a review until i spend 5 minutes in a reviewed game. Well, good, tell me how am i supposed to spend 5 minutes in a game that won't start from a library? I have to start it from an exe. file from a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ folder. Do i have to launch it and watch it crash for 5 minutes? The horror, the horror!!! C'mon man, DAFUQ?!Show moreShow less

0.1 hours at review21 people found this helpful

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