The Evil Within
Fair · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9975% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.31/hr
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 34,030
- Critics
- 68 players 17 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 19% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15.3h
- To 100%
- 41h 2.7x the story
- Finish
- 27% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 71
Price and sales
- Sales
- 78 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 February 2021
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 177 now
- Recent reviews
- 84% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 69% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
49% start to 27% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
78 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tormented Souls ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats El Paso, Elsewhere ($19.99, scores 61).
More about The Evil Within
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 18. Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 2,102 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.99 (75% off). Predictions like this were right 87% 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
💔The game is interesting, but the mechanics would be better if they were like those in Resident Evil, because issues with stamina and the like really limit the gameplay💔 💔I hate stealth in games, but if there's very little of it, I can put up with it💔 💔This game is worth your attention, but you need to be prepared for the fact that it will feel punishing at times💔
2 more reviews
great game. props to the director and the design team for putting effort in each level. 12 year old game that still looks amazing.
Fulfils the classic RE itch with just enough weirdness to be unique. And I didn't run into any performance issues as mentioned by some of the other reviews. Only cons for me is that this was clearly a console port and as such, the options are very limited. Can't change screen shake, motion blur, FOV, etc. But that's okay.
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 460 or equivalent 1 GB VRAM card, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Evil Within scores 66/100 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/268050/the-evil-withinReviews 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 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.