Propagation: Paradise Hotel

Propagation: Paradise Hotel

Fair · Shooter · 2023

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The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.5h 4.9h to 100%
Value
$5.71/hr
Reviews
87% of 881 positive
It needs 67% off ($6.67) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.67 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
Engagement18% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$5.71/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 392 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

Trapped inside the Paradise Hotel, you are desperate to find your sister. Explore dark surroundings, gather resources, and survive terrifying encounters. This intense single-player VR survival horror game with great storytelling will get your adrenaline pumping.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1060 equivalent, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

29 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 38 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats CONVRGENCE ($24.99, scores 46).

More about Propagation: Paradise Hotel

Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 392 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 164 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

72% start to 18% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 6, 12:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

awesome game, too anyone using old WMR heatsets just set to the odyssey settings in contols, makes reloading easier, but yeah great game
BB5 BOXERRecommendedafter 4.6hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
I dont think i've ever felt so much anxiety in my life. Really well made, a creepy hotel is a great setting for horror. Only complaint is it was a little short and ended kind of abruptly on a cliffhanger. Hope they make the part 2 of this
TyrannySmasherRecommendedafter 5.2hJul 2026Read on Steam
damn, this is a solid horror vr experience! my only regret is not buying because of bad reviews back in 2023
TheMicroMechanicRecommendedafter 2.1hMay 2026Read 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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Propagation: Paradise Hotel scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1824960/propagation-paradise-hotel
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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

DeveloperWanadevStudio
PublisherWanadevStudio
GenreShooter
Released2023
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12