The Test
Worth it · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.98/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 20,109
- Genre rank
- Top 2% RPG
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.81 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 0.5h
- To 100%
- 0.5h
Price and sales
- Sales
- 80 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $1.19 February 2020
- Sale every
- 30d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 88% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 80 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is cheaper than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sultan's Game ($19.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats While We Wait Here ($4.99, scores 75).
More about The Test
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 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,329 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
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...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1024x768 or better video resolution in High Color mode, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Test scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1241510/the-testReviews 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 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.