The Headliners
Worth it · Action · 2025
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.79, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jan 2025.
- Length
- 2.8h
- Value
- $1.71/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 40% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($5.19)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($4.79)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
Co-op horror game where you play in teams of 1 to 8 reckless journalists, ready to explore a city overrun by deadly creatures to snap spectacular footage. Your only goal: make the headlines without becoming one.
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
January 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.79. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 17 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $4.79 at 40 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 63 at list, 70 today.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, White Noise 2 ($9.99, scores 53) and Chained in the Backrooms ($1.64, scores 20), are both worse buys on this math.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 67 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 270 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 7 of the 67 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 1,917 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Players
95 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 09:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Headliners scores 70/100 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/3059070/the-headlinersReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 2.
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