The Witness
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$7.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.37/hr
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 21,691
- Critics
- 87 players 3 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 19% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.9h
- To 100%
- 37.4h 2.2x the story
- Achievements
- 2
Price and sales
- Sales
- 73 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 October 2026
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 150 now
- Recent reviews
- 79% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 80% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 73 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Manifold Garden ($19.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Obduction ($29.99, scores 43).
More about The Witness
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 1,705 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
16.9 hours to finish it, 37 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
9.5/10 This game is truly unique. On the surface, the very simple base puzzle mechanics might not seem that interesting, but it is absolutely astonishing how the devs have transformed it into an incredibly diverse and stimulating experience. It is honestly difficult to put into words what a profound effect this game had on me that I still keep thinking about it that I write a review after many years of finishing it...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I enjoyed the peaceful walk around the island, finding continuously harder puzzles at every corner, some I solved, some I saved for later. loved to discover the ones hidden in the environment. you'll find some odd traces of humanity though, really makes you wonder what happened on that island though.
It has a few fun and interesting moments. Unfortunately it's mostly just Jo Blow's ego suffering the world's longest existential crisis.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000 series, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Witness scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/210970/the-witnessReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.