The Upturned
Worth it · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.74.
- Length
- 6.3h
- Value
- $1.59/hr
- Reviews
- 99% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($6.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($5.99)
- Last discount ended
- 190 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
A frantic adventure. Welcome to the Upturned Inn: a grand hotel for the dead! You just want to find your room.
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
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in December 2025. 12 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 27 weeks ago. The math puts its BANGER price at $8.74. The record reaches that level 11 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. Among the games that feel like it, Portal 2 ($9.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Hello Neighbor Alpha 1 (free, scores 81).
1 of the 324 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 200 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
95% start to 8% 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
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 18:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Love the game, you'll enjoy it once you play it, no spoilers but the game is absolutely worth buying
stellar gameplay, art style, horror, story, dialogue, only thing wrong with this game is that it doesnt last forever
where can i find free lobotomies so i can forget this game exists... then play it again. then repeat this process over and over again. and over and over again. no borax, no glue, free pls!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Upturned scores 82/100 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/1717770/the-upturnedReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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