You Must
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Length
- 1.3h 2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.53/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 540 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
In the social network, the main character plays the quest "Hide and Seek", but this time the organizers decided to move the quest to the real world. They indicate the coordinates of the place where the quest item was hidden, the one who finds it first will receive a cash prize.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 48 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 33 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, September 7th ($6.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Escape: Malice ($7.99, scores 0).
More about You Must
This site sampled 318 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 454 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 329 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 67 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
97% 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
Less a finely crafted horror game than a rough-edged but effective sprint through one jump scare after another.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Developed and published by Thin Line, You Must is a first-person survival horror game that takes an ordinary financial struggle and transforms it into a terrifying fight for survival. The story centers on a young man desperate to earn money to provide a better life for his younger brother. Believing he has found a simple opportunity through an online "Hide and Seek" competition with a generous cash prize, he follows...
This game is titled "You Must"... and it is appropriately named because you must not buy it unless you get it on sale very cheap, because that's exactly what this game is. Cheap jumpscares, an enemy that you can't run away from once he locks onto you, and trying to figure out the codes for doors will leave you angry. 3/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
You Must scores 44/100 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/1726730/you-mustReviews 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.