Cyber Manhunt
BANGER · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.49.
- Length
- 8.4h
- Value
- $0.42/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 610, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.
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How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.49, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 69 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $3.49 at 65 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 81. With it, 89.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Unheard - Voices of Crime ($2.79, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator ($12.99, scores 66).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $7.87. It costs $3.49.
Steam's global achievement data puts 38 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 619 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.4 hours; clearing it takes 26, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
83% start to 38% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
38 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
Game was MINDBLOWING! I am a huge fan of puzzle games and this felt like a huge "escape room" but with hacking, piecing the story together and seeing how everything fits into one big narrative?! CRAZY! This game has replay value as you may miss clues OR get 1/3 endings. I got the neutral endings and will be going back to play it again to get the perfect ending.
Great game! Really interesting story and characters. I like how things start to connect the further you go through the cases. English translation can be a little awkward at times, but it doesn't affect the overall experience. I didn't want to stop playing until I solved the cases. I started with Cyber Manhunt 2, then liked it so much I came to try this. I recommend starting with this one first. I've just finished...
This game is a fun hacking, investigative game, similar in a lot of ways to Orwell, or The Operator, and has entertaining game mechanics (but sometimes the hacking mini games can become annoying). I will say that some of the game is poorly translated, and there are some glitches that I ran into. Also they do warn about this in the game in advance, but this game deals with pretty intense and dark topics so keep 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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Cyber Manhunt scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1216710/cyber-manhuntThe 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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