Slender: The Arrival
Fair · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 65% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$7.9960% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $9.52/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 9,404
- Critics
- 65 players 23 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.1h
- To 100%
- 7.8h 3.7x the story
- Finish
- 8% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 21
Price and sales
- Sales
- 85 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 December 2018
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 9 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
45% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 85 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, CASE: Animatronics ($9.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Visage ($34.99, scores 42).
More about Slender: The Arrival
Critics scored it 65. Players sit 23 points higher at 88 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 783 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 2,609 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.1 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 3.7 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $6.99 (65% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
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
This was my first time playing it, and I think it was amazing. I like the graphics and how each Character has a backstory
2 more reviews
A genuinely tense survival horror experience that still delivers great scares through flashlight exploration and notebook hunting. Sneaking around dark environments while managing the creeping dread of the Slender Man keeps the gameplay engaging. It can feel a bit short and repetitive, but it's a solid ride for horror fans.
Always liked games about slenderman, this one is definitely my favourite. Though it's very short, it's still enjoyable. But the problem is that it is not as scary as expected. Yeah, it is still creepy with that story, especially when you deep in the lore of it. But again, except some chapters, the game is not scary. Love it though.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 1060 with 4gb of ram or better, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Slender: The Arrival scores 52/100 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/252330/slender-the-arrivalReviews 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 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.