Emissary Zero
Fair · Narrative · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $4.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2025. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 4.5h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in 4 of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($5.84)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 45% ($4.94)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 750 Ti, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.
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
It has never been cheaper than $4.49. That was September 2026. 14 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $4.49 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 57. With it, 66.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Backrooms: Escape Together ($7.49, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Occult ($4.99, scores 25).
Steam's global achievement data puts 36 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 726 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 23 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 193 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
99% start to 36% 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
Players
19 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 16:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I usually criticize horror-games, but this is very solid, like, you get more for what you pay type of bargain. Very good game, very long for a $5 game (it was on sale), and a ton of horror. The NPC's could be "smarter", but they do the job. 9/10 game!
played on stream with a friend. had a lot of fun plan on finishing the game later but as of this review, i think it's worth the $8
Game makes no sense. Playing with 3 idiots makes it make less sense. 100% regret, 100% pain, 100% frustration.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Emissary Zero scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3176060/emissary-zeroReviews 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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