Impostor Factory
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 3.9h
- Value
- $2.56/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1024x768 High Color +, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2026. 38 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Finding Paradise ($9.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition ($34.99, scores 71).
Critics scored it 80. Players sit 16 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 354 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Players
12 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
This is the second-to-last game in the To the Moon series. As with the previous titles, you can expect gorgeous pixel art, a beautiful soundtrack, expressive animations, and a lot of reading. Fortunately, the writing is top-notch. It leans far more toward a walking simulator than a traditional video game. In fact, Impostor Factory features even less player interaction than its predecessors. There are no more puzzles...
Who ever is able, should experience this game series. One of the best story telling and dialogues . Someone might say it's life itself with all the ups and downs, all the if's and everything in between, beautifully imagined and narrated. 10/10
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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Impostor Factory scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1182620/impostor-factoryThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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