SpyParty
Skip · Action · 2018 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $24.99.
- Length
- 0.5h
- Value
- $49.98/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD 3000, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
SpyParty is a competitive espionage game about subtle human behavior. A Spy hides in plain sight at a fancy cocktail party, trying to accomplish missions while blending in with the other guests, while a Sniper with a single bullet looks inward, searching for the Spy.
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $24.99, set in April 2018. In 8 years of price history it has never once been discounted.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Of Guards And Thieves (free, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats StarMade ($14.99, scores 15).
13 of the 480 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 396 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 267 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Players
8 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Abandoned game full of empty promises for updates over the past 5 years, not worth the $25, especially going to a developer who is very rude to people asking about the abandonment of the game
Its a fun game to play with friends, but it can get repetitive EASILY The game being 25 dollars is insane
This game seems basically done. I had seen gameplay of this and was going to compliment what looked to be old computer style UI with Sims 4 graphics only to discover this game started development in 2008 and entered early access release in 2018. How this game isn't finished is beyond me. Me and my friend are having a blast. The $50 price range (since you'll need at least one other person to buy it) and the fact it...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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SpyParty scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/329070/spypartyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 22, price as of Sep 24.
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