File Destined

File Destined

Fair · Action · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.2h 1.3h to 100%
Value
$3.33/hr
Reviews
87% of 445 positive
It needs 23% off ($3.08) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.08 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 466 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

Raising the score
Engagement64% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$3.33/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 353 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Can this last case of Oliver, all be just a small part of a bigger picture? Gather clues, unravel the mystery behind the case and uncover the truth.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 960, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 8 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 67 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SOMA ($29.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Apsulov: End of Gods ($19.99, scores 51).

More about File Destined

Steam's global achievement data puts 64 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 353 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 281 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 73 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

90% start to 64% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
File Destined scores 64/100 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/2257460/file-destined
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMetavision Studio
PublisherMetavision Studio
GenreAction
Released2023
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements55