Prison of Lies

Prison of Lies

Fair · Narrative · 2026

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.

Price
Free to play
Reviews
96% positive
Length
No data
no length in our data yet
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
96%
72 reviews, as of Aug 6
Released
2026

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

In this short visual novel, four prisoners on death row are cleared of all charges. But the prison has a quota to meet. The four are put in a room and asked to decide among themselves over the course of an hour... who will be the one to die?
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement57% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews96% of 72 reviews, scored as 85%
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 82 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Adventure Escape Mysteries (free, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Tell Me Why (free, scores 61).

Steam's global achievement data puts 57 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

The drop-off

94% start to 57% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Prison of Lies scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 72 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3041280/prison-of-lies
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 6.

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Details

DeveloperLockedOn
PublisherLockedOn
GenreNarrative
Released2026
Achievements7