DreadOut
Skip · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $3.66/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
DreadOut is a third person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate.
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The value story
June 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. 82 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 40 percent on value. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, DreadOut: Keepers of The Dark ($6.99, scores 48) beats it on value, while it beats Through the Woods ($19.99, scores 19).
55 from critics against 77 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 13 percent of players ever finish it. On a 4.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 692 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 1,237 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.1 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 2.1 times as long.
The drop-off
70% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
8 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
goated game reminds me of fatal frame would highly recommend if you love the fatal frame series :D
Ghosts are afraid of social media The game is very scary. Lady in red true face in mirror is the most terrifying of all. The plot twist at the end of the story is brilliant. Some of the 'boss ghosts' were really frightening. The best thing is, the game won't give you any sorts of hints. You have to figure out the puzzles by yourself. All in all I enjoyed it and recommend it to play late at night to get real feel...
classic fatal frame-like, and here is my review pro: - good indonesian culture representation (down to the last detail, the gerobaks, ghosts, environment, etc) - beautiful world-building - enjoyable gameplay con: - the recovery animation of being getting hit is super slow
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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DreadOut scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/269790/dreadoutThe 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 20, price as of Sep 24.
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