The Test
Worth it · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99.
- Length
- 0.5h
- Value
- $3.98/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1024x768 or better video resolution in High Color mode, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
February 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $1.19. It has been discounted 78 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 4 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sultan's Game ($24.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Yes, Your Grace ($3.99, scores 78).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2021 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,808 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 19,162 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 98 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 0.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Players
3 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
Really confused by this game... what's the intended goal? Is it measuring what's intended to be measured? It says it's a horror game, but only has a static screen of blood on objects while answering questions, with the occasional comment of, "There's something watching you!" Finishing the game the first time, I got the word: LOVE, along with a pep talk that seemed entirely irrelevant to everything I answered with. I...
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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The Test scores 83/100 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/1241510/the-testThe 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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