Graveyard Shift
Skip · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Length
- 1.1h 1.6h to 100%
- Value
- $6.35/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 783 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Guarding the graveyard shift is often considered one of the most terrifying jobs globally, but night guarding at Whispering Winds Cemetery surpasses any other cemetery in horror! Being Night Security in this place will turn into a nightmare for you that you may never forget.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 280, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 19 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On the same math The Mortuary Assistant ($24.99, scores 59) and Welcome to Kowloon ($6.99, scores 41) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Graveyard Shift
This site sampled 476 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,627 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 67 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 538 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 74 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
97% start to 69% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 13:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I'd definitely recommend it to people who like to play a story at your own pace and i love the atmosphere!
1 more review
This is cool - the cemetery setting is definitely spooky. But the game is buggy, the security cameras in the disection hall do not work properly at night making while other cameras show proper night vision mode. Also when people speak I do not see any facial animations. As it is, it feels a bit flat. It is all about "go check this out", "go back to the security booth". The commuting between objectives and security...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Graveyard Shift scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2636420/graveyard-shiftReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.