Pineview Drive

Pineview Drive

Skip · Action · 2014

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 11, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
5.7h 11.1h to 100%
Value
$1.75/hr
Reviews
63% of 683 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 41 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

Holding it back
Value$1.75/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews63% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 64% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 182 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A one-of-a-kind horror shocker – a game aware of your fear!Check out the improvements introduced with Update 2.0!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia / AMD with 512 MB memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 72 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 6 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs ($19.99, scores 20) beats it on value, while it beats Agony ($14.99, scores 1).

The drop-off

53% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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 16, 10:56 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

It was Halloween night, ten years ago when I first bought this game! I was too afraid to play it as it was too dark and my PC got so loud!! Finally LAST year I finished the first night! This year in October I reached the 11th night!! Lots of scares and lots of fun! This is an indie horror game that isn't perfect but for a few scares I say GET IT! Some great videos on YOUTUBE of people playing it can help you if you...
MrNuts70Recommendedafter 12hOct 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I have conflicting feelings about this game. The atmosphere and environment are amazing, but the mechanics are problematic and the story is not well-explained. Pros: -The atmosphere: This is a classic spooky haunted house done in a way that just feels creepy. There aren't any physical threats like monsters chasing you around. Really the only danger to our character is fear itself. It just feels creepy, and that's a...
Pain SheriffRecommendedafter 7.0hAug 2025Read on Steam
oh boy... first up: half the basic settings are missing and the rest are broken. how? well there are no sound options. second the brightness option is fake. that's right it was so murky I had to crank my monitor. which hurt my eyes. no controller, my hands are cramping and my back hurts. now about the game.... what game? pixel hunt a key repeatedly ad infinium? the bad jumpscares you can see coming from a mile away...
PerturaboNot recommendedafter 1.1hJun 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Pineview Drive scores 11/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/288880/pineview-drive
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Reviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+5
Critics58
Players63
Metacritic critics · 683 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperVIS-Games
PublisherUnited Independent Entertainment
GenreAction
Released2014
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements20