Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9980% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.98/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 4,957
- Critics
- 78 players 4 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% Narrative
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 20.4h
- To 100%
- 21.8h 1.1x the story
- Finish
- 79% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 33
Price and sales
- Sales
- 65 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 January 2025
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 15 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 74% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
79% start to 79% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 65 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. On the same math Stories Untold ($0.99, scores 62) and Mists of Aiden ($6.99, scores 69) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Steam's global achievement data puts 79 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 252 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 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
What players say
Genuinely impressed by how the game manages to mimic confusion and memory loss by playing with its own structure. Carlos, the Stranded Pair ending, the final twists and reveals, the puzzles, and best boy Gab were all highlights to me. Eric and Mira are annoying and unredeemable, but in an entertaining way. And the voice acting is incredible, just thinking of some scenes gives me chills. 999 had a perfectly...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
this game is pretty bad It's good sometimes. but its pretty bad Okay actually its kinda funny because its so stupid play it if you've played the previous two
This is the ending of the Zero Escape trilogy, and it is by far the worst one. For starters, the 3D models were somehow even worse than in the second game, something I thought was impossible. There is also much more gore, which I found kind of funny because, as I said, the models were awful, so it was pretty hard to take any of it seriously. As usual, pseudoscience and alternative histories are a major focus...
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About the game
Nine participants awaken, trapped in an underground facility. To escape, they must play a game with deadly consequences. Who will live, and who will die? The choice is yours. Let the Decision Game begin…
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX650 1GB or AMD HD 7700 1GB(DirectX 11 graphic card required), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma scores 61/100 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/311240/zero-escape-zero-time-dilemmaReviews 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 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.