Evil Inside
Skip · Shooter · 2021
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $12.99.
- Length
- 1h 1h to 100%
- Value
- $12.99/hr
- Reviews
- 63% of 345 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover the truth.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512mb Video Memory, capable of Shader Model 2.0+, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 39 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Evil Inside - Prologue (free, scores 19) outscores it, and so does While We Wait Here ($4.99, scores 75). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Evil Inside
Steam's global achievement data puts 83 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 4 of the 304 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 254 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 84 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
87% start to 83% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Evil Inside, developed and published by JanduSoft, is a first-person psychological horror experience built around grief, isolation, and the fragility of memory. The game places players in the role of Mark, a teenager grappling with the aftermath of his mother's death and his father's imprisonment, leaving him alone to care for his younger brother. In an attempt to reconnect with his deceased parent, Mark experiments...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Great indie horror game to finish in a single sitting almost 1:30 to 2hr game. Simple but it does the trick with the jump scares. I'm on my personal October horror challenge and it was a good one to start with. Recommended... 7/10
Is it just me? Moving the mouse to look around felt like I was doing arm exercises. There was no option to change it in the setting either.
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Cite this score
Evil Inside scores 11/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1243880/evil-insideReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.