Amber Alert
Skip · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 13, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.8h
- Value
- $2.77/hr
- Reviews
- 63% of 237 positive
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Buy now or wait
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.
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About the game
Step into the shoes of a policeman in "Amber Alert," a difficult survival horror game. Responding to a late-night call, you find a sinister cult of women abductors. Your mission: rescue a captive girl. Navigate perilous streets, evade cult members, and survive.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 460, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 20 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is cheaper than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Receiver ($4.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Takedown: Red Sabre ($4.99, scores 0).
More about Amber Alert
Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 127 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 68 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Amber Alert is a survival horror game that thrives on making players feel vulnerable from beginning to end. Rather than relying on elaborate storytelling or cinematic action, it builds its identity around suspense, uncertainty, and the constant fear that danger could appear at any moment. Players assume the role of a police officer investigating the disappearance of a young girl after receiving an anonymous tip...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Can't speak to the VR experience, as I haven't played it, but I really enjoyed this game for what it was. Movement, gunplay and aesthetics surprisingly excellent for such a low price tag, and the randomized elements add to replayability. It isn't really a straight "horror" game, but more like a twitch/ tactical shooter with a horror atmosphere. Found myself like clearing rooms and holding angles to get through each...
Buggy, enemies will spawn on top of you. Audio is horrific, no checkpoints, poor communication to the player. Horror relies entirely on shock factor.
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Cite this score
Amber Alert scores 13/100 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/3019800/amber-alertReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.