Bendy and the Dark Revival
Fair · Action · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $6.75, only fair at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $2.82/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 84% over the last 30 days against 92% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1030, AMD RX 550, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Bendy and the Dark Revival® is a first-person survival horror game set in the creepiest cartoon studio to ever exist. Discover the truth. Escape the studio. Above all, fear the Ink Demon…and survive.
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The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 32 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $6.75. The record reaches that level 9 times.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Poppy Playtime (free, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Bendy and the Ink Machine ($19.99, scores 55).
Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Players rate it 92 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 84 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,764 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 954 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.1 hours; clearing it takes 21, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
86% start to 34% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
62 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
First playthrough review time. Bendy and the Dark Revival is a first-person horror puzzle game that improves many things from the earlier game. The game has a better setting, sound design, and more detailed areas to explore. The old cartoon style mixed with horror elements gives the game its own identity. There are also many hidden details that make exploring the world more interesting. The gameplay is the weakest...
Even mascot horror deviants deserve better than this. I've seen a bit of this being played before so I had some kind of an idea in my head before getting into it, such as "baby's first Bioshock " but after actually beating it, it feels more like someone played the first hour or so of Bioshock, thought that would be enough and decided to make this game. Suffice to say it wasn't enough. There are so many things that...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Bendy and the Dark Revival scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1063660/bendy-and-the-dark-revivalThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Sep 24.
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