Chasing Static
Fair · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.9h 4.3h to 100%
- Value
- $5.17/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 514 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.30 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 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
A psychological horror short story. Explore the untouched wilderness of rural Wales as you uncover the forgotten remains of a mysterious facility and find the truth behind the missing villagers of Hearth.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 6770, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 22 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mouthwashing ($12.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Layers of Fear ($29.99, scores 40).
More about Chasing Static
This site sampled 365 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026.
The drop-off
91% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Chasing Static was all right. I especially enjoyed the art style and atmospheric aesthetics of this game, but the ending genuinely felt out of no where, and that bothered me a bit. I also wish there were more automatic save points. There were a couple times I lost hours of gameplay from crashes. The pace was a bit confusing, too. Either way, I would recommend it as a short, unique, and pretty decent walking-sim.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Interesting game, it is one of those short and sweet kind of experiences. A gem for any horror fans.
I was engaged with the game at the beginning, but it quickly goes downhill. The long radio conversation almost put me to sleep. But hey, a new tool, finally something interesting, I thought... new tool that allows you to mindlessly run around trying to catch some signals. And the reward? Each time, an unskippable meaningless flashback-dialog by random NPCs. Maybe I didn't play enough for the narrative to shape...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Chasing Static scores 50/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1319420/chasing-staticReviews 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.