Gods Will Be Watching
Skip · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 6.3h
- Value
- $1.59/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with at least 512Mb, 461 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was May 2016. 90 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 15 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Primordia ($9.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Home ($4.99, scores 16).
Of the 464 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 515 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6.3 hours; clearing it takes 17, which is 2.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
15% start to <1% 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
2 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
This is a more resource management puzzle/strategy game than anything else. It has a great narrative especially with the DLC. The game is difficult and challenges you to discover each chapter's mechanics to optimise resources. Even so it's pretty well balanced, challenging but fun. The steam reviews definitely don't do the game justice. I feel like the game hasn't been properly marketed and hasn't reached the proper...
Even with the cheesy narrative, uninspired aesthetic and primitive mechanics, the complexity of problem-solving in-game makes the experience very engaging. I just recommend that you choose "Puzzle Mode" when starting a save, since the luck factor in some contexts and actions can be frustrating, as makes success impossible. Ps: game won't consider who lived or died on completed levels for script matters.
I don't really get this game. It's a resource/time management game disguised as a "puzzle" game, but the puzzle is that you need to know the solution/patterns ahead of time to survive.
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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Gods Will Be Watching scores 26/100 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/274290/gods-will-be-watchingThe 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 23, price as of Sep 24.
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