Knock-knock

Knock-knock

Fair · Narrative · 2013

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 6 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$9.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$1.9980% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$2.85/hr
Reviews▼
87% of 2,084
Critics
57 players 30 higher
Genre rank
Top 14% Narrative

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
It needs 46% off ($5.37) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
3.5h
To 100%
9.1h 2.6x the story
Achievements
18

Price and sales

Sales
58 on record
Typical cut
70% off
Steam low
$0.99 May 2019
Sale every
52d last October 2026
Lowest now $1.99 at GOGall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
3 now
Cheaper than
30% of its genre
Better reviewed
85% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

61% start to 9% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

58 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.

Its score puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Downfall ($8.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Deadlight ($7.19, scores 53).

More about Knock-knock

57 from critics against 87 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Of the 381 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 417 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.

3.5 hours to finish it, 9 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.

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

Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.85/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 381 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

What players say

An interesting horror experience that doesn't rely on screamers or cheap thrills, but intead tries to recreate an eerie atmosphere of a children's creepy story. In this it's successful, I think. But the entire game is just learning what the game wants from you. I got a bad end, and I didn't fully understood that there is another ending, and that there are specific steps (that I completely missed) to get to it. This...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 3.4hSep 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Очень классное "что-то вроде интерактивной ситуации" (в терминах самих разработчиков), про бессонницу и вот это зудящее ощущение крипоты, когда ты дома один, на другом конце жилья что-то непонятное шуршит, а в темноте где-то в переферийном зрении мерещутся вещи . Чисто артистически игра это передаёт очень близко к идеальному; при этом всякие жуткие штуки на удивление красочные, и при каких-нибудь других...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 7.5hApr 2026Read on Steam
This is one of the worst horror games I've played in my life, it is obtuse, repetitive, and nothing happens, the dread comes from that stupid clock in the corner of the screen. The gameplay revolves around finding clocks, opening doors, turning the lights on, and avoiding ghosts that can randomly spawn right over you, the game feels like a security job where you walk around doing absolutely nothing. The game is a...
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 3.9hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

There is an unusual cabin deep in the woods. It had served as a laboratory and a dwelling for three generations of Lodgers.But as of late the latest Lodger has been noticing weird changes in familiar surroundings; things are missing, noises and rattle heard. Something odd is coming out of the woods.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: GPU that supports shader model 2.0, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

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Knock-knock scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/250380/knock-knock
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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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+30
Critics57
Players87
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 2,084 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperIce-Pick Lodge
PublisherIce-Pick Lodge
GenreNarrative
Released2013
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements18