DON'T SCREAM
Skip · Strategy · 2024
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 12, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Reviews▼
- 65% of 4,892
- Genre rank
- Top 86% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Refunds
Why
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Price and sales
- Sales
- 21 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $3.59 October 2026
- Sale every
- 50d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 16 now
- Cheaper than
- 44% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 15% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
21 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed ($24.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats DON'T SCREAM TOGETHER ($7.99, scores 0).
More about DON'T SCREAM
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 91 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 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 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 5 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 91 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 3,872 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 86 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.59 (55% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
If you scream, you restart. A jumpscare horror simulator where you walk through a pitch black forest and escape by reaching 8:00 AM.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 470, 4GB, 17 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
DON'T SCREAM scores 12/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2497900/don-t-screamReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.