outside the door
BANGER · Short indie · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Length
- 1.9h 2.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.05/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 775 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 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
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 23 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Supper (free, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats While We Wait Here ($4.99, scores 75).
The math says it holds its tier up to $3.44.
More about outside the door
This site sampled 338 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 305 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
82% start to 41% 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
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 17:52 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
So just 100% this game best to put a save before making a final decision. The game really makes you think about how you judge people and its best to play this in stages. That means its NOT A PICK UP AND PLAY as imo its best to take each case one at a time. If you really like the game play it ALL in one sitting. But half the fun is playing it your way and being judged. Its fun with good characters and a great plot...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Impressive/ǝʌᴉssǝɹdɯI The plot is very intriguing but also uncanny and the way you start noticing patterns and connections makes it more interesting and invites you to keep playing to discover the truth behind it.
Interesting, but awkward english translation. Which is kind of inexcusable in a visual novel.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
outside the door scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2680680/outside-the-doorReviews 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.