I'm on Observation Duty 6
Worth it · Short indie · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $11.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.75.
- Length
- 6h 18.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 695 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.75 or less.
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 employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 970 or better, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 15 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 12 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $4.75, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, I'm on Observation Duty ($2.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats 8AM ($3.99, scores 1).
More about I'm on Observation Duty 6
4 of the 339 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 6 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
63% start to 8% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 6 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 02:52 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The series really hit its stride with this one, I think. It upped the challenge (at least for hard mode-i haven't tried the regular mode) the perfect amount, making levels difficult but not un-fun level infuriating. The level of detail and creative anomalies are very rewarding to discover. The easiest mistake to make is not changing rooms quickly enough and allowing anomalies to build up faster than they can be...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A significant upgrade from the last two I'm On Observation Duty games ! - Obviously, the gameplay is very much the same, and I wish the dev team would try to swiytch things up a little in the future, like they did with the third game. However, I still enjoy where they're going with it and, like any anomaly game, it gives you what it told you it would give. - The graphics has definitely quite an upgarde in this one...
Fun! but learned about the use of ai in the game. I know 8 shapes up about it but you can never be sure nowadays with how seamless it is. therefore this will likely be my departure from purchasing the series. it was fun while it lasted :(
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
I'm on Observation Duty 6 scores 69/100 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/2137700/i-m-on-observation-duty-6Reviews 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.