Outlast
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.7475% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.94/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 141,269
- Critics
- 80 players 16 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.1h
- To 100%
- 11.5h 2.3x the story
- Finish
- 25% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 14
Price and sales
- Sales
- 86 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 October 2026
- Sale every
- 40d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 658 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 13% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
50% start to 25% 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
The value story
The value story
86 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $9.35. The record reaches that level 83 times.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Outlast 2 ($19.99, scores 64) and CASE: Animatronics ($9.99, scores 54) both come in lower.
More about Outlast
80 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 25 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. 17 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,013 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 16,458 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 5.1 hours; clearing it takes 12, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
141,269 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Outlast is a relentless first-person survival horror game that forces players to run and hide to survive. Set in Mount Massive Asylum, it builds tension through its oppressive atmosphere and night-vision camera mechanic. While occasionally repetitive, it remains a highly effective experience for horror fans. Plot and Setting Investigative journalist Miles Upshur explores Mount Massive Asylum after an anonymous tip...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX / ATI Radeon HD 3xxx series, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Outlast scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/238320/outlastReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.