Demons Never Lie

Demons Never Lie

Worth it · Narrative · 2019

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $3.99.

Length
3.2h 3.8h to 100%
Value
$1.25/hr
Reviews
92% of 462 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 830 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

Raising the score
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement42% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.25/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 207 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Demons Never Lie is a creepy graphic adventure made with voxel and low-poly where even your soul is at stake! An incredible and dark story with elements of the classic point&click and visual novels. An exciting interactive experience with a unique atmosphere.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

Across all 32 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 119 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rusty Lake Hotel ($1.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Bad Dream: Coma ($8.99, scores 69).

More about Demons Never Lie

Steam's global achievement data puts 42 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 207 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to January 2026.

The drop-off

93% start to 42% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam 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

Demons Never Lie is dramatic storytelling experience. PROS: Goth girls. Good music. Ketchup AND hotdogs A story that's actually really gripping. Great pacing. CONS Sometimes clicking and move is mad difficult for no reason. Lightening can be a bit wonky at times. Sometimes the solution to puzzles requires moon logic, but these moments are rare. Overall, awesome game, pick it up!
Moe Y'know (Moe Potato)Recommendedafter 5.5hSep 2020Read on Steam
2 more reviews
A collection of three very low-poly P&C adventures that successfully merge into one interconnected story Pros: - Creepy and cute visuals. - Heavy themes, such as family, responsibility, infidelity, domestic abuse, alcoholism. - Puzzles that can be solved w/o being psychic or using a WT. - Possibility to commit all seven deadly sins and get achievements! - Brief and to the point. - Multiple endings. Cons: - No option...
lovenlibertyRecommendedafter 7.0h26 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This is more of a neutral recommendation (and definitely only buy this on sale like I did) because conceptually, I love what this game is going for, 3 stories that are intertwined and the whole "going back in time to fix mistakes" that made Life is Strange so compelling, but the game has some huge flaws you need to consider before buying: 1)This is a port of a mobile game, some people really hate that, personally I...
OtomonRecommendedafter 3.4h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Demons Never Lie scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1138410/demons-never-lie
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Reviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIndieBug
PublisherRecordMedia
GenreNarrative
Released2019
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements18