Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside
Worth it · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.88. Typically $4.19 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.66/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 1,363
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.88 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.5h
- To 100%
- 2.5h 1.7x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 78 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.74 December 2014
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 29 now
- Cheaper than
- 49% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 78 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $4.88. The record reaches that level 78 times.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Return to Monkey Island ($24.99, scores 65) and Papetura ($4.43, scores 76), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside
2 of the 314 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 470 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
At 1.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.19 (40% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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
you get your things stolen by trees then you help a communist carrot a sentient mine cart and a sentient boat with a mental problem to get them back to capture darkness only to befriend darkness and play cheese and crackers with him all night 10/10 babagaboosh
2 more reviews
I got dis back in the third grade and was too stupid to beat the game, now that i am older, i still cant beat it but its very fun!
felt nostalgic and downloaded this game. showed my 8 year old and she loves it. bout to get the whole series
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
There's no reason to be afraid of the dark. Fed up with his fear of the dark, Sam transforms himself into Pajama Sam - world's youngest superhero and resolves to confront Darkness! With help from King the mine car, Otto the boat, and a host of fascinating characters.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 100% DirectX compatible graphics, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/283960/pajama-sam-no-need-to-hide-when-it-s-dark-outsideReviews 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 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.