ColdSide
Skip · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$7.99Skip
On its price record
$6.93Fair
- Length
- 3h 3.9h to 100%
- Value
- $2.66/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 538 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.93 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- 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
ColdSide is a psychological horror first-person game. It takes place in an abandoned underground laboratory that studied anomalous phenomena.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 460 2 Gb/Radeon 6850 2 Gb, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 57 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 66 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, THRESHOLD ($9.99, scores 50) beats it on value, while it beats Decay: The Mare ($4.99, scores 46).
More about ColdSide
Steam's global achievement data puts 21 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 3 of the 400 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 102 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
77% start to 21% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Amazing indie game! Chapter 3 and 4 had some amazing scares for sure! and the composer for Penumbra and Amnesia added to this, even more amazing! Keep making stuff!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
IMPORTANT! SAVE SYSTEM does not work... BUT : Do not use CONTINUE, even if you have completed a level. Use START GAME, where you can select the level you want to play. (Weird Dev decision) I completed level 3. The next time I played, I clicked CONTINUE and level 3 started again... A moment of anger... till I found out. I couldnt remember that there was an option to choose the level when I started the game for the...
I can't say it's a bad game, but there's nothing that makes it stand out. It's a 100% old-school indie game - basically another action-free walking simulator. The graphics are decent, but the story is dull. Some of the jump scares can catch you off guard, but the game feels a bit clunky overall. I'd lean more toward "no" than "yes."
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ColdSide scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1098270/coldsideReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.