Back
Skip · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $6.99. Fair at $2.53, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2024 (lowest $6.29, Jul 2024).
- Length
- 1.2h 1.8h to 100%
- Value
- $5.83/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 376 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.53 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
About the game
《Back》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy ！！！！ The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 12 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 10 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 32 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Evil Nun: The Broken Mask ($19.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats THE 4 SINS ($9.99, scores 0).
More about Back
Of the 323 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 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 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 292 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 202 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 63 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
98% start to 24% 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
What players say
Haven't seen an FMV title since the days of Sega CD. This one delivers surprisingly well. Horror equivalent to Evil Dead, Scenes similar to that of Yoga Hakwon & Biohazard. I mean damn, this game delivers I'd like to add- upon the final segment, as if the actress wasn't attractive enough, Barry White started playing out of nowhere. Then "Crossroads" by bone thugs n harmony played on shuffle during the bad...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The first game in the Back series ~ . I like this one, it is a very short game that you can complete in less than 3 hours but there aren't many FMV horrors around and this one is not bad. The story is nice, the actress are great, it's an ok location, subtitles works and the cinematography is good. There are extras in the form of 18 pictures which would be nice but for some reason you can't just see the picture in...
Not that great in terms of fmv, more movie than anything. You are given multiple options, sometimes, with all but 1 of them killing and resetting you, doing nothing
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Back scores 40/100 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/2913040/backReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.