The Evil Within
Fair · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15.3h
- Value
- $1.31/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 460 or equivalent 1 GB VRAM card, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in February 2021. 76 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. 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 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tormented Souls ($1.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Manhunt ($9.99, scores 30).
The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 85 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 2,097 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
15.3 hours to finish it, 41 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
49% start to 27% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
211 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Really cool game clearly inspired be Resident Evil, which makes sense considering who made it. The gameplay is fun but can be clunky at times and some of the stealth segments and boss fights are quite difficult due to that. The story and characters are quite interesting and has me looking forward to playing the sequel. I'd recommend this game especially if you are a big Resident Evil/Horror fan. 7.5/10
I may return to this game at some other point, but as of right now, the gameplay is annoying me to the point that I decided to watch it on YouTube instead.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Evil Within scores 66/100 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/268050/the-evil-withinThe 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 Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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