Scene Investigators
Skip · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 5.5h
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series, 26 GB of storage. Windows only.
A hardcore deductive reasoning game for fans of the “true crime” genre. Only by unraveling the logic and grasping at the motivations behind each case can the crimes be completely solved. Perfect as a social-style mystery fiction.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was May 2025. It has been discounted 24 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Painscreek Killings ($19.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Telling Lies ($19.99, scores 9).
Of the 542 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,656 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 129 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 128 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
54% start to 12% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 01:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
i had an amazing time with this game, trying to actually figure out the scene from just pure deductions alone. played through with detective mode and was a blast. so imagine my surprise when i found out that this game was from the same developers of the painscreek killings, a game where there's rarely any deductive elements in it at all. i'd say this was a major (and good) leap from the formula of the painscreek...
A genuinely good murder mystery game. I love that it's not just "who died" and you have to work to find out different bits of information about the timeline and whatnot. The Bloodbath case was definitely the hardest of the first three cases (and it's rightfully rated as such) as it took a lot of reasoning to figure out the timeline of what happened but it was eventually possible with what was given.
This game has potential, but unlike the developer's previous game, you get no story here with this and you kind of have to deduce your own story from the evidence given. Unfortunately, the game doesn't actually explain ANYTHING to you. You don't even get to know who the victim is (no details at all!). You'll get a chalk outline of a body (featureless, of course). You can find clues in a relatively small area and...
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Cite this score
Scene Investigators scores 27/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1159830/scene-investigatorsReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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