Meridian 157: Chapter 1
Worth it · Narrative · 2020
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99.
- Length
- 2.4h 2.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 373 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 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
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
While searching for the anomaly, you find yourself trapped inside a facility on a remote sub-Arctic island. What is this place? Who built it? Why was it left abandoned? Explore the uninhabited complex you now find yourself trapped in, but be warned: you might not be as alone as you think...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel Iris Pro Graphics, 553 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 5 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 67 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, 100 hidden cats ($0.59, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 ($8.99, scores 70).
More about Meridian 157: Chapter 1
None of the 326 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to August 2026.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 00:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I can't recommend this game. Especially compared to other games in this genre. It's quite empty, not many puzzles (most of the puzzles are totally out of style btw, they are just random puzzles, not connected to the story or the environment in any way), objects, too many rooms, the game is devoid of story. Even 15 years old games in this genre did a better job. I can recommend Shiver: The Vanishing Hitchhiker, much...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is the type of adventure you see a lot of on mobile. It's like a hidden object game without specific hidden object scenes, but it has the type of puzzles you see there. The objects are spread around the levels in such a way that sometimes you find the objects first, some times the places you need to use them. Compared to what I consider the king of this genre, the Adventure Escape games, there is not much for...
THAT CLOCK PUZZLE! THE damn red handle REFUSED to cooperate with me! XD And uh... Sokoban puzzles with multiple ball manipulations. Yeah. Uh... I can't solve a single one. I still don't get 'em. But! Apart from all of those... I actually had a good time with the continuation. I really like the soundtracks, it's eerie. ^-^ This one was definitely harder than the "Prologue". Still good. Now the other two!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Meridian 157: Chapter 1 scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1458920/meridian-157-chapter-1Reviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.