This Is Not Your House

This Is Not Your House

Fair · Narrative · 2024

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $0.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
0.2h 1h to 100%
Value
$4.95/hr
Reviews
86% of 283 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Holding it back
Value$4.95/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 271 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

About the game

Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9 capable graphics card, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

15 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 51 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is cheaper than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, While We Wait Here ($4.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats The Casting of Frank Stone™ ($29.99, scores 6).

More about This Is Not Your House

This site sampled 271 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 259 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 96 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 0.2 hours. Doing everything runs 1, 5.0 times as long.

The drop-off

89% start to 70% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

This Is Not Your House is a psychological horror visual novel that builds its entire experience around an unsettling premise that feels disturbingly realistic. The story follows Roger, an elderly widower who returns home after a routine shopping trip only to discover that someone has changed the locks and insists the house belongs to them. What begins as an ordinary misunderstanding quickly spirals into a disturbing...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 14hJun 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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This Is Not Your House scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3139140/this-is-not-your-house
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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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCody Tierson (Trash Eyes)
PublisherTrash Eyes
GenreNarrative
Released2024
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements10