I'm on Observation Duty 4
Worth it · Short indie · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.8h 5.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.31/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 853 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.82 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
A spot the difference -type of puzzle horror game about monitoring live surveillance camera footage and spotting anomalies. Anomalies range from furniture movement to intruders. Fix anomalies by filing reports. You will need sharp eyes and good memory. The goal is to survive the entire night.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 970 or better, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 23 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1 (free, scores 63) and The Norwood Suite ($9.99, scores 58).
More about I'm on Observation Duty 4
This site sampled 324 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 156 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
At 3.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
74% start to 19% 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
- Players online
- 6 when we last checked, on Oct 6, 02:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Funny enough this game is also helping me with attention to detail! I love this game so much
1 more review
definitely among the first of it's kind, these anomoly games are great - even though i'm terrible at spotting the differences majority of the times 😅 but the scares and anomalies are definitely some of the best range of big noticeable things and small subtle things with some jump scares also - another great addition to the Observation Duty titles! If you enjoy these kinds of games, this is where the journey's into...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
I'm on Observation Duty 4 scores 84/100 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/1730360/i-m-on-observation-duty-4Reviews 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.