Studio System : Guardian Angel
Worth it · Shooter · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $11.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.67.
- Length
- 4h 10.8h to 100%
- Value
- $3.00/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 606 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.67 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 7 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
An investigation of a secret film studio underneath their school has led 3 students down an estranged rabbit hole. With the fixed-camera as your weapon, shine a light on the truth and save your friends.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 12 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $4.67. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Shadow Man Remastered ($3.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Sorry We're Closed ($24.99, scores 67).
More about Studio System : Guardian Angel
3 of the 333 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to August 2026.
The main story runs 4 hours. Doing everything runs 11, 2.7 times as long.
At 4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
16% start to 4% 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
What players say
underrated horror game, tbh I was looking in the points shop and I saw the frames, then I got interested in playing, best decision I could've done. Recommended if you look for a short horror retro-game.
2 more reviews
The things you discover looking through avatars in the points shop. I enjoyed this game quite a bit, it's pretty clearly SH inspired survival horror, but it does do some interesting and unique things with the gameplay that I haven't seen before. The graphics might not look impressive at a glance, but they grow on your and manage to set the atmosphere well. The characters are cute and relatable and I found the story...
This has to be one of, if not my favorite game I have played. As someone who deals with a dissociative disorder I related a lot to the main character Becky and how she seems to struggle with something similar. The atmosphere and setting is so dark in the best way possible, I got scared a lot by off screen enemies. The art style is very unique and probably my favorite part of the game. There was a learning curve at...
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Cite this score
Studio System : Guardian Angel 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/2194790/studio-system-guardian-angelReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.