INSIDE
Fair · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $8.97, only fair at $24.99.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $6.94/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GT 630 / 650m, AMD Radeon HD6570 or equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
January 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 87 in the 10 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $8.97, a level the record has reached 66 times.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Seen ($0.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Black The Fall ($14.99, scores 40).
87 from critics against 97 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,870 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 3,343 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
74% start to 14% 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
129 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A great game. At first, I thought the game would be carried by graphics and storyline and not the gameplay, since you're moving basically in 2D (forward and backward), but the game has some very interesting gameplay aspects! The visuals are epic, some parts have the most amazing music, the story is mysteriously engaging. As a Tarsier Studio fan, this game is amazing. The price is good.
A truly gorgeous experience that is more a piece of art than anything else. The game focuses around some pretty simple mechanics that require little time to master. Most of my brain usage went towards exploration and solving the puzzles, which were overall quite intuitive and didn't keep me stuck for more than a few minutes at a time (if that). Though the ability to explore the environment lent a lot to the game...
Playdead combined logic and horror into a phenomenal puzzle-platformer that will have you hooked until you finished it. The game isn't overcomplicated, only needing WASD and a few other keys to run through the storyline. While it isn't overcomplicated, it can definitely be challenging by presenting you with puzzles relying solely on logic and timing. INSIDE also leaves a lot of room for interpretation, with things...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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INSIDE scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/304430/insideThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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