Alone in the Dark (2008)
Skip · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $1.09/hr
- Reviews▼
- 40% of 1,525
- Critics
- 67 players 27 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 100% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.2h
- To 100%
- 15.3h 1.7x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 81 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 August 2022
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 2% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 81 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. The Evil Within 2 ($39.99, scores 66) and Metro Exodus ($29.99, scores 67) both outscore it.
More about Alone in the Dark (2008)
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 67 against 40 percent.
10 of the 693 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 302 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 31 percent of the 538 reviews written there were positive, against 40 percent overall, and those are 52 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
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
What players say
Had to install one mod for the game fixed the display menu issue, but its running good so far 60fps. To be on the safe side I disabled discord overlay. Connecting a controller is weird instead of a option you wait on the controls menu until it finishes a calibration then you just press a button on the controller swaps it to Xbox 360 controls had to turn off steam controller input. other than those 2 problems its...
2 more reviews
This is an old, nostalgic game from the PS2 era that holds a lot of special memories for me; when I discovered it was available on Steam, I bought it immediately to relive those childhood moments. There's another game called *Black*-also originally for the PS2-but unfortunately, it isn't on Steam. Overall, it's a great game; it was truly exceptional for its time and packed with detail. I bought it because of the...
Previously, on Alone in the Dark... This game is a guilty pleasure. It's a bit janky and you gotta do a little dance to get it working on modern comps now. But! It's totally worth it! The cheese, the whole tv show gimmick! As a wannabe director whose tried her hands at home movies and such, I was having a blast from beginning tot end. The taxi chase scene is *chef's kiss* perfect! Sadly, the ending just kinda...
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About the game
The game that started the popular survival horror genre returns better than ever! Players control Edward Carnby, the main character from the original Alone in the Dark, on a thrilling journey through a dark and terrifying re-creation of New York's Central Park where Carnby must discover the truth behind a dark conspiracy.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 7600, ATI Radeon X1650 XT, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Alone in the Dark (2008) scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/259170/alone-in-the-dark-2008Reviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.