The USB Stick Found in the Grass
Skip · Short indie · 2021
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 0.5h 1.1h to 100%
- Value
- $19.98/hr
- Reviews
- 39% of 206 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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 forensic challenge – find out who the owner of the USB stick was and reconstruct their story.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: any. Windows only.
The value story
19 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 16 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. A Perfect Day ($19.99, scores 61) outscores it, and so does Call of the Sea ($4.99, scores 75). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about The USB Stick Found in the Grass
0.5 hours to finish it, 1 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
What players say
Inspired experience. You're given a found thumb drive of 10-15 pictures and a diary, which you must use to piece together an event. It's open in a way that I think many would dislike, but I enjoyed what it was going for. There are also 3 zipped files you can open using some puzzle solving skills, though it's really an option Easter egg and I just looked them up for the achievements. Whoops
1 more review
Interesting game. What you see is what you get - a USB stick with files on it, and the loose challenge to find out what happened. To do so, you need to unlock three zip files by finding their passwords based on hints in the other files on the disk. There is no in-game explanation of what actually happened and you are left to connect the clues on your own. A detective game without the payoff, as it were,
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The USB Stick Found in the Grass scores 0/100 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/1379550/the-usb-stick-found-in-the-grassReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.