I'm on Observation Duty 3
Skip · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 46, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 1.8h
- Value
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 960 or equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A thrilling psychological horror game. Your job is to look for anomalies in a haunted house. If you see anyhting suspicious (furniture moving, extra objects, intruders), take a photo and send a report. Includes both VR- (windows only) and non-VR (windows, mac, linux)-versions.
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
June 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $2.24. 30 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 15 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 25 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Granny ($7.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Inside the Backrooms ($6.29, scores 42).
This site sampled 349 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 133 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.8 hours; clearing it takes 7, which is 3.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
52% start to 9% 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
Would rate it somewhere in the middle Unsure about the new mechanics and feel like it makes the game lose a little of its charm, still a good idea tho Love the sound design and is prob one of the scariest The places feel way harder to familiarize with the new system and the first person view makes me nauseous, especially the fact that I have to run and check every room often The anomalies are more creative and...
meh, just not as good as the others. i don't mind that it's 3d (though fixed cameras fit iood better imo), it just feels too clunky to move through the levels. i think it would've felt a lot smoother if it were done like other anomaly games, where you move through the level repeatedly instead of roaming around like you do in this one. also it's really annoying that you can't see your cursor when trying to open...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
I'm on Observation Duty 3 scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1458560/i-m-on-observation-duty-3Reviews 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 3, price as of Oct 1.
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