Slender: The Arrival
Fair · Action · 2013
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $9.52/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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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.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 83 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Outlast ($14.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Visage ($34.99, scores 44).
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 says about 8 percent of players ever finish it. On a 2.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 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.
The drop-off
45% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 2.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Slender: The Arrival scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/252330/slender-the-arrivalThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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