Self-Isolation
Worth it · Action · 2020
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.24, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2020.
- Length
- 2.8h
- Value
- $0.44/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 491 positive
Full price
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Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
About the game
This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.24, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 60 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Near Death ($7.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats CASE: Animatronics ($9.99, scores 54).
More about Self-Isolation
Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 9 of the 361 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to July 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 262 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 343 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 82 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% start to 34% 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
I'm of mixed emotions here. Just finished the third day in the game. I find this game to be interesting enough in the storyline that I'm wondering what will happen next. At the same time I find the game a tediously slow grind, and the whole forced isolation thing is just depressing. This is also my first game with low-poly graphics, and I must say for the record that I absolutely hate the look of low-poly graphics...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I actually liked this game. Nice and short, with some horror elements. Pros This game does have a lot of pros going for it. Art Style The art style is a low-poly art style, as can be seen on the store page. It does have a lot of unique artwork made for the game, especially the stamps and seals used in passports and documents, so the developers have actually put some effort into making the game stand out from other...
I wanted to like this game but I have to say I've played free games with more content than this. It's a slightly interesting Paper's Please clone themed off the pandemic. I like both the idea and the horror theme but I feel the writing really fell flat. I try to not look harshly on indie games with poor translations (which is true for this game but still understandable) I mainly feel that the dev didn't get there...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Self-Isolation scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1298530/self-isolationReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.