The Night is Grey

The Night is Grey

Skip · Narrative · 2024

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The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$12.99Skip

On its price record

$12.15Fair

Length
7h 10h to 100%
Value
$1.86/hr
Reviews
81% of 281 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.15 or less.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

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

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement33% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.86/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews81% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 235 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Graham’s alone in a forest filled with strange wolves. While he’s fleeing for his life he finds a lost girl in an abandoned lodge that won’t survive without his help. Try to find their way to safety in this slow-burning cinematic thriller filled with puzzles, hand-drawn animation and lots of mystery
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GT440 or HD5570, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

Across all 16 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 38 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 23 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. On the same math Sally Face - Episode One ($2.99, scores 86) and Rusty Lake Hotel ($1.99, scores 96) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about The Night is Grey

Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 235 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to August 2026.

The drop-off

68% start to 33% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 11:56 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

The Night is Grey is a captivating point-and-click adventure that combines psychological suspense with emotional storytelling, creating an experience that feels more like an interactive animated film than a conventional horror game. Developed and published by Whalestork Interactive, the story follows Graham, a man fleeing through a dark forest filled with mysterious wolves. His desperate escape leads him to Hannah...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 12hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Oooh boy. It's a typical point and click as far as mechanics but the story takes you to a place that you may never see coming.
BruisedLeeRecommendedafter 9.6hMay 2026Read on Steam
I rarely leave negative reviews, as I'm a proponent of pointing out what worked instead of harping on what didn't but the visuals and trailer for this game made a lot of people assume it was about werewolves. Or some horrifying beast in the woods. It is neither. It is about an abused man who becomes abusive...unable to properly reconcile his misdeeds as he keeps losing his memory of it. The message of kindness in...
DyreNot recommendedafter 5.9hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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The Night is Grey scores 49/100 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/1281490/the-night-is-grey
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Reviews 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 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-3
Critics84
Players81
Metacritic critics · 281 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperWhalestork Interactive
PublisherWhalestork Interactive
GenreNarrative
Released2024
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements16