INSIDE

INSIDE

Fair · Action · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$24.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$2.4990% offBANGER

Cost per hour▼
$6.94/hr
ReviewsS
97% of 76,548
Critics
87 players 10 higher
Genre rank
Top 5% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 64% off ($8.96) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $21.42.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
3.6h
To 100%
4.7h 1.3x the story
Achievements
14

Price and sales

Sales
89 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$0.99 January 2019
Sale every
32d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
124 now
Recent reviews
96% 30 days
Cheaper than
4% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

74% start to 14% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 89 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $8.96, a level the record has reached 68 times.

Its score puts it in the top 5 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).

More about INSIDE

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 May 2024 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,105 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 3,358 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.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 5 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$6.94/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds6 of 800 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

What players say

A Game Without a Single Word I had been passing by this game on Steam for a long time, thinking it would be something uninteresting. I'm not a fan of platformers and I often skip them. But this game managed to surprise me and make me fall in love with it. This game does a great job of making you feel both the character and the actions you need to take to solve the puzzles. The controls and interactions are very...
NekomataRecommendedafter 3.6h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
I remember watching YouTubers like Markiplier and Jacksepticeye play this and always thought it looked great, so it was a real treat to experience this for the first time. This is definitely a puzzle game more than a horror game which is perfectly fine, but don't go into this expecting any real scares. Speaking of the puzzles, none of them are crazy difficult and all provide the player a good challenge. The...
RtogoRecommendedafter 3.8h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This game is really well polished, and while there is no dialog, it uses the imagery it presents to the player to allow the player to paint there own narrative. the background paints a really mysterious atmosphere and the puzzles were fun to figure out. A great pickup as a chill game you can finish in one or two evenings
Aqualol_<3Recommendedafter 4.8h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GT 630 / 650m, AMD Radeon HD6570 or equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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INSIDE scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/304430/inside
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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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+10
Critics87
Players97
Metacritic critics · 76,548 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperPlaydead
PublisherPlaydead
GenreAction
Released2016
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements14