LiDAR Exploration Program
Worth it · Narrative · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2025.
- Length
- 1.7h 4.3h to 100%
- Value
- $1.76/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 318 positive
Full price
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Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales.
- 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
LiDAR Exploration Program is a relaxing atmospheric game with light horror elements, where you explore in complete darkness using a scanner to reveal the world around you.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 970 or Equivalent, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. Across all 17 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Anomaly Exit ($5.99, scores 73) and Uncanny Tales: Cold Road ($2.99, scores 34).
More about LiDAR Exploration Program
Steam's global achievement data puts 32 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 295 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 126 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.7 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
99% start to 32% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 21:57 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
If you're looking for a pastime this game is great, play some music and walk around, enjoy the visuals. But if you're looking for a game to play, it doesn't offer much of fun things to do, and frankly, gets boring quite quick.
2 more reviews
this game is so good, i was expecting jumpscares and whatnot, but i was just given a beautiful, atmospheric game instead, and i love it
A bit too funny to be scary, and a bit too scary to be funny, but still enjoyable enough.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
LiDAR Exploration Program scores 78/100 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/1882190/lidar-exploration-programReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.