The Complex: Expedition
Fair · Action · 2025
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.8h
- Value
- $8.33/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 3 of its last 4 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 10% ($13.49)
- Last discount ended
- 94 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x with 2GB Video RAM. Windows only.
When a routine expedition into The Complex goes horribly wrong, you're left alone and lost, wandering the seemingly infinite maze of hallways, otherwise known as the Backrooms. Might there be something following you?
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was July 2023. Its cuts run 10 percent off as a rule. There have been 4 in the 3 years tracked, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 13 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. The nearest things to it, Don't Be Afraid ($9.99, scores 54) and The Chant ($24.99, scores 32), are both worse buys on this math.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 360 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 12 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 1,033 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
Players
10 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 05:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is the most faithful to Kane Pixels Backrooms. Absolute masterclass of horror.
This was the best backrooms game ive played, the liminality and the eeriness was perfect, 10/10
AMAZING, scares you in ways you have not imagined yet. I have but, you know the normies.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Complex: Expedition scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2172260/the-complex-expeditionReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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