FACEMINER
Fair · Action · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.8h
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 9 and Oct 22, at about $3.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 44 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($4.79)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($3.99)
- Last discount ended
- 23 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128MB VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Build a biometric data harvesting empire from scratch in FACEMINER, the hardcore thriller clicker set in 1999. Classify data, upgrade mining infrastructure, and scale up your A.I. surveillance empire to obscene ends in this creepy narrative-driven incremental management sim with a dystopian twist.
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
The value story
April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 17 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Lyca ($4.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Tap Heroes ($2.99, scores 33).
4 of the 440 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 154 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.8 hours. Doing everything runs 17, 6.1 times as long.
The drop-off
73% start to 3% 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
10 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 18:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I feel mixed about this one. It has an interesting premise, but I feel most of the commentary starts and ends in the aesthetics. If you like incremental games this one is standout, but it isn't going to blow your mind. The soundtrack is banger tho, breakcore and Palantir are like pb and jam I guess
Rarely does a clicker/incremental game captivate me with a story, but this one really got ahold of me. I enjoyed the nostalgia of the interface mixed with the modern take of the theme. I highly recommend this one.
This is just like that time i got a job at flock overseeing the daycare bathroom and childrens gymnastic center
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
FACEMINER scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2276980/faceminerReviews 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 1.
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