CROWDED. FOLLOWED.

CROWDED. FOLLOWED.

Fair · Strategy · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
0.9h
Value
$6.66/hr
Reviews
92% of 326 positive
It needs 43% off ($3.44) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.44 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 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

Raising the score
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$6.66/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 299 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

You have the briefcase. Now it's after you. It's not going to stop. Be careful—it may take the form of someone else. A short horror game by NIGHT DIAL.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 10 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Scourge | Tai Ương ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats THRESHOLD ($9.99, scores 50).

More about CROWDED. FOLLOWED.

Of the 299 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 262 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 88 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

95% start to 2% 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

What players say

A very immersive and scary game, I just wish the death/getting caught animation was less boring. (!Slight Spoiler!): the flashlight gimmick near the end was kinda underutilized but still an overall great game.
AppraisalRecommendedafter 1.0hJul 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
A short snacky horror game that uses its low fi graphics very well to create a real sense of unease. Your being chased by a relentless shape changing monster that can take the form of different people. Its always hunting you and the sound effects and heartbeat when its near really help to crank up the tension. Gameplay wise your trying to complete scavanger hunts in crowded locations like a subway while the entity...
CloserEmperor16Recommendedafter 4.9hMar 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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CROWDED. FOLLOWED. scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2948790/crowded-followed
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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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperNIGHT DIAL
PublisherBanshee Games
GenreStrategy
Released2024
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements16