In Silence
Skip · Action · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 18.9h
- Value
- $0.53/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2GB Video RAM, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
In Silence is a multiplayer horror game. One player takes on the role of the monster who has hypersensitive hearing abilities and is almost completely blind. The other players(2-6) play as survivors, trying to escape or hunting the monster.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in June 2024. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 57 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 29 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre. On the same math FOREWARNED ($12.99, scores 82) and Dead by Daylight ($19.99, scores 48) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 56 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 100 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 56 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 3,101 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
70% start to <1% 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
Players
26 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
no the monster can literly run through you and right past you geniuenly a buggy mess of a game requires major fixes to deserve "mostly positive" also you get like at most 5 hours of gameplay
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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In Silence scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1361000/in-silenceThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 19, price as of Sep 24.
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