Julian & Friends
Worth it · Short indie · 2025
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99.
- Length
- 1.6h 1.7h to 100%
- Value
- $2.49/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 335 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 7 seasonal sales.
- 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
About the game
Join Julian and his friends in this psychological horror experience inspired by point-n-click computer games from the early 2000s. Witness many shenanigans with characters from the infamous 98xx.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Intel(R) UHD Graphics 600, 850 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
November 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Across all 4 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 27 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Insomnia: Theater in the Head ($2.49, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Children of Silentown ($19.99, scores 52).
More about Julian & Friends
Of the 296 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 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 693 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 17 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 137 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
48% start to 7% 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
What players say
Genuinely one of my favorite games ever. Though it is a usual found footage horror game like most of the same genre, it still have a unique playstyle to it. I found the characters to be fluid in their writing as well as the minigames you play fit their characters and are very simple! I especially enjoyed the fact that you could click on Mr. Write on your first playthrough and piss him off, haha. Anyway, the horror...
2 more reviews
my friend nickl4d2 beat and 100%ed this game and ha take that gerald nickl4d2 2026 and hello
Great short horror game for those who enjoy arg style games, great for the price totally worth it
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Cite this score
Julian & Friends scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3147190/julian-friendsReviews 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.