98xx
Fair · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.7h
- Value
- $0.81/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 488 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 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
The 98xx is an old computer OS from the 90s that’s recently been discovered after many years of being lost. There are still a few working files within the OS that can be explored.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel(R) UHD Graphics 600, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 3 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 51 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Paragnosia ($3.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Rise of Insanity ($9.99, scores 41).
More about 98xx
13 of the 390 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 130 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 13 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 191 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 41 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
I like it so much its low memory\ graphics and Ram will thnk you and i like the core of the game aka a lost footage/computer vibe
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
very addicting game i played it for 3 hours and still love it, the games are very smooth on steam and the game itself isnt that bad like everyone says, i would recommend it if your looking for something cool/short to play
Honestly got bored within the first hour. The games aren't at all challenging, some of the clues seem to lead to nowhere, and the jumpscares are extremely predictable and don't make sense within the context of the game. The lore also seems to be all over the place, and as another reviewer mentioned, the articles and websites are written with AI. Pretty disappointing. I can't believe I paid for it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
98xx scores 57/100 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/2431070/98xxReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.