The Bad Kids
Skip · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 46, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Length
- 9.6h 15.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 634 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 10 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
As an adaptation of the popular suspecse TV series, Cat's Cradle, this game combines investigation, solving puzzles and reasoning with original stories, which can build a more Immersive experience. Game will build new stories based on original setting and focus on the inner world of the character.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750Ti, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 35 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 28 percent on value. Among the games that feel like it, SOMA ($29.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Draugen ($19.99, scores 29).
More about The Bad Kids
Steam's global achievement data puts 37 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 2 of the 242 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to August 2026.
The drop-off
87% start to 37% 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 Sep 27, 19:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Good atmospheric horror game with lots of logical puzzles with supernatural things going on. Couple of various endings with a lots of missable achievements. Quite a long gameplay, spend couple of days playing it. Liked it even more that its Chinese, really liked the atmosphere and visuals, played it with Chinese audio and English subtitles all the time. If you are fans of supernatural horror tension game with lots...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
i felt really sad while playing this which is a good sign... sigh... i guess the ending got to me...
I appreciate the studio creative effort but in doing so they had made this game a shame on the original work. While the original book dig deep into human nature and left reader thinking, this game, in an effort to make it more approachable, has simply turn a masterpiece into a crappy mystery/supernatural game. The mystery is too easy and the pace is slow. If I had a chance to turn back time, first thing I do will be...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Bad Kids scores 46/100 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/2071200/the-bad-kidsReviews 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.