Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami

Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami

Skip · Action · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$19.99Skip

On its price record

$8.76Fair

Length
4h 7.7h to 100%
Value
$5.00/hr
Reviews
79% of 755 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.76 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each 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

Raising the score
Engagement33% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$5.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 446 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

In this side-scrolling action-adventure game, you'll need to scour the inside of an abandoned hotel, looking for clues to solve the mystery of the hotel and ensure your escape from a mysterious, murderous mascot intent to kill.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 520 over, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 32 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 25 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SILENT HILL 2 ($69.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats SUCCUBUS ($24.99, scores 30).

More about Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami

Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 2 of the 446 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

85% start to 33% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 07:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami delivers a creepy, stylish horror experience with some genuinely tense moments. Its level design feels more focused and polished than many similar indie horror titles, making each area memorable. It's also a great game to play with others watching or guiding you, adding to the suspense and fun.
G 卄 0 丂 ㄒRecommendedafter 10hNov 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
3 morons VS 1 mascot killer I overall truly enjoyed my time with this game, however it has some peculiar flaws worth mentioning, especially considering the price. The premise is simple yet intriguing, with the story encompassing some interesting ideas and managing to keep me invested until the end. The characters are sweet and likable, but often painfully irrational during tense moments. Moreover, the detailed art...
Pat ^_^Recommendedafter 11hNov 2025Read on Steam
cool but the movement is so slow, especially after the first playthrough pro tips: make a lot of save through out the game if u want to get all the achievement.
NepRecommendedafter 5.0hMar 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami scores 41/100 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/1523400/livestream-escape-from-hotel-izanami
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developerqureate
Publisherqureate
GenreAction
Released2021
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements21