Platform 8
Fair · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $2.79, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since May 2024. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 0.7h
- Value
- $3.99/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 30% off today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 20% ($3.19)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 30% ($2.79)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.79, set in August 2025. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 15 in the 2 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today's $2.79 at 30 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 56 at list, 62 today.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Exit 8 ($3.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Lost in Anomaly ($3.99, scores 10).
This site sampled 652 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 33 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 414 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 2,339 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 87 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 0.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 08:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I really enjoyed Platform 8! I liked that different anomalies required different actions, but figuring out what to do was sometimes a lot of trial and error. I feel like some basic instructions would've helped, because it got a little frustrating at times. I really liked the ending, especially how after finding all the anomalies, it continues into EXIT 8 haha. I played both games one after another, and after being...
An iteration on Exit 8 (to the point that its straight up the same named executable) that I'm not quite sure about. Leans more into "spooky monster encounter, quickly follow the correct rules" engagement instead of the previous "decide direction" mechanic and thus kinda looses out on the "did i actually choose correctly" anticipation. The few "spot the difference" puzzles just lock the exit now so it feels more...
Way better than exit 8 which was a memorize game, it required at some points to remember vague details of the environment, which is annoying since you are guaranteed to start at the beginning every time. I have to say that Platform 8 is an improvement, more of a game, love the horror elements that were added to the game, and especially love how the game added different ways to deal with anomalies instead of going...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Platform 8 scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2903560/platform-8Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 2.
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