Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room
Fair · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $1.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2020. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 1.9h 2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.05/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 553 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
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
You wake up in a spaceship with no memories. In this escape room with a sci-fi setting you will have to investigate your past solving different puzzles. Will you be able to discover what happened to you and how did you get there?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 450, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2026. 69 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Adventure Escape Mysteries (free, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats The Search ($3.99, scores 30).
More about Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room
Of the 391 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 148 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
92% start to 67% 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
a decent short escape room if you want to distract yourself from a bad day for 2 hours.
2 more reviews
While I'm recommending it, I'd say you should get it on sale, and only play this if you're dying for any kind of escape room game because you've finished most of the other major ones, it's a fun way to kill like 2-3 hours. Like my review for Tested on Humans another of their games, it's not bad, it's just not exceptional. This game expects you to be fairly advanced in reverse engineering puzzles, this is not a...
MC should really get over it. You did your best. Kick back and enjoy some pizza and milk. Less than two hours for this one, because it was mostly easy. Get it on sale!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room scores 61/100 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/1374290/palindrome-syndrome-escape-roomReviews 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.