Is Simon There?
Skip · Narrative · 2022
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 0.7h 1.7h to 100%
- Value
- $7.13/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 372 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
A few months have passed since the death of my son, Simon. Ever since that tragic day, I find myself falling into the darkest emotions I could ever imagine. I am haunted everyday with what I have done; But sometimes, I am haunted by more than just my emotions...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 960 or slightly lower, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 24 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Garten of Banban 7 ($9.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Psalm 5:9-13 ($3.99, scores 45).
More about Is Simon There?
Steam's global achievement data puts 76 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 284 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 203 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 71 percent of everything written about it.
0.7 hours to finish it, 2 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
82% start to 76% 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
What players say
I usually eat these kind of games up - a walking sim psychological horror game? Sign me up. Except this game didn't really jive with me. The first half of the game was alright, decent scares throughout. But navigating through the house is so tedious that it became a chore. Just walking around until you run into a trigger for something to happen. And then the story itself. I get our player character obviously has...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
3.2 At it's core I find this gameplay quite weak, just a bunch of occasional jumpscares that didn't really 'hook' me. Outside of those it was just wandering around trying to find what the trigger was, generally leading to just walk back and forth from one end to the other each time. Narratively I found a part of it quite interesting but I don't feel that it properly went in on the topic as much as it could...
A boring walking sim (the shift to sprint doesn't seem to work) with a nonsensical story (your son got eaten by wolves but you had time to take ap hoto of him seconds prior..?) with a gimmick to unlock the 'true' ending that is outrageously convoluted - counting the flashing lights in a hallway is so opaque and obscure almost nobody is going to get it. The door with the blood to the bathroom is so glitchy with...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Is Simon There? scores 49/100 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/1961300/is-simon-thereReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.