Red Tape
Fair · Narrative · 2023
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.6h 2.4h to 100%
- Value
- $3.74/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 288 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
Explore 9 levels of corporate hell as you work to clear your name with the Devil and restore balance between Heaven and Hell.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or MD Radeon 6870 HD Series, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
23 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Silver Chains ($24.99, scores 16).
More about Red Tape
Steam's global achievement data puts 56 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 238 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to July 2026.
The drop-off
91% start to 56% 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
As a fallen angel, work your way up Hell's corporate ladder to redeem yourself and discover a conspiracy along the way. The gameplay mostly consists of completing a series of tasks and side-tasks for various historical and mythological figures in a satirical corporate setting. Because, of course, a modernized Hell would have a marketing department obsessed with social media followers, and a dysfunctional HR...
2 more reviews
Less than two hours of content here, but very enjoyable ones in my opinion, it´s mostly a first person "adventure" game in which most puzzles consist of getting x item and giving it to y person, but the situations surrounding those quests are all in a sort of satire of office work with hellish characters like beelzebub or Baphomet. I quite enjoyed my time with it and it is cheap enough so you might not worry about...
Thumbs-up, with VERY big reservations. I had fun with, well, most of it. As far as gameplay goes, there's barely any; this is about as rudimentary as a walk-around-and-fetch game can be. Personally, though, sometimes what I really want is a dead simple game, with enough input needed to engage my attention without demanding much higher thought. On that basis Red, Tape is just what I needed. The story is also simple...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Red Tape scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2184230/red-tapeReviews 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.