Beside Myself
Skip · Strategy · 2021
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 17, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Length
- 1.1h 2.2h to 100%
- Value
- $6.35/hr
- Reviews
- 67% of 347 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
About the game
You have to play as the historian-journalist Michael, plunge into the atmosphere of darkness of an abandoned hospital, where you will need to unravel the secrets of the past and try to get out in order to tell the whole world about those terrible events.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB or AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
52 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 55 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 78 percent of its genre. Platform 8 ($3.99, scores 56) outscores it, and so does Exo One ($16.99, scores 58). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Beside Myself
None of the 318 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 173 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 54 percent of everything written about it.
1.1 hours to finish it, 2 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
79% start to 10% 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
Beside Myself is a first project horror game using Unreal stock assets. And it shows. I liked the setting and what the dev was trying to create, but sadly enough most scares fell flat due to how silly they looked. You really can't get far with these assets. That said, it was a complete package. A bit of a story, looking for usable items, fixing fuses, taking photo's to progress and a good amount of supposed to be...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Listen, I don't care what anyone says. I actually did like this game. I'm a horror fan, and although it was nothing over the top, it is a good, short, indie horror game. Nothing super creepy, and usually I can about predict the jump scares, but it did get me several times. I also played it with headphones and a little loud just for the full effect. Some decent little puzzles. Again, nothing over the top, but it's a...
Nothing special on horror fan. Plot etc feels like seeing thousand times before and mostly stupid things. I never got scared, cheap jumpscares, stupid plot/story so not worth money in my opinion maybe 5/10. feels like another cash grab quickly made boring horror game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Beside Myself scores 17/100 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/1564110/beside-myselfReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.