Malware
Worth it · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.09, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Aug 2024.
- Length
- 2.5h
- Value
- $0.84/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 30% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 20% ($2.39)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 30% ($2.09)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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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
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.09. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 12 in the 2 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart. Today's $2.09 at 30 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Insomnia: Theater in the Head ($2.49, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats JudgeSim ($3.49, scores 67).
Of the 445 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 545 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 48 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
93% start to 11% 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
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 19:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is somehow one of the best games I've ever played. It's difficult for me to say why. It's fun, kind of funny, kind of mean (without going too far with it in my opinion).... But it keeps things simple. Even the so-so translation doesn't really put a damper on things (and may actually add to it). The only thing is the final final secret puzzle (it's a code) - just look it up don't try to solve it, yourself.
A fun little game, gave me some sensible chuckles during the solutions and emails and stuff. Worth a gander for sure if you want to relive your 1990s malware frustrations KEK
The idea was cool, but puzzles quickly become repetitive, some of them cannot be solved without a guide and/or doesn't make any sense. For example you need to "install" some app for 10 times to be able to uncheck all "malwares" , how are you supposed to know that? And playing in style "try to test-click everything" is not that interesting. But most frustrative is a last semi-secret puzzle with decoding an encrypted...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Malware scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3019370/malwareReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 2.
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