Scrutinized
Worth it · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 14.2h
- Value
- $0.70/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 or equivalent, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Work to expose the numerous criminal degenerates that plague your quiet town. Use citizen-issued reports, police records, social media accounts, text conversations, and more to determine who’s an actual threat and who’s harmless, all while avoiding the killers trying to infiltrate your home.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was December 2022. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 23 in the 6 years tracked, about 14 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games closest to it, Welcome to the Game ($4.99, scores 67) and Welcome to the Game II ($9.99, scores 58) both come in lower.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 14.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 442 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 798 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 278 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
68% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 14.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
This game is actually so much fun! It's really hard and I absolutely love the studio who made the game. It never stopped being terrifying. I will need to attempt (emphasis on attempt) normal as I couldn't have cut it closer on casual. I look forward to playing more of their games and I'm glad I started with this one. I would definitely recommend it if you like a challenge, gathering evidence, and being scared almost...
game isnt bad, i like the gameplay..it is just the controls are so annoying sometimes..but everything else is good and fun
I first saw this game on the YouTube channel CallMeKevin and I have always wanted to try it out. it isn't an easy game but it is a fun game
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Cite this score
Scrutinized scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1384770/scrutinizedReviews 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 1.
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