Lost in Anomaly

Lost in Anomaly

Skip · Short indie · 2024 · Early Access

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 10, under the fair line, at $3.99.

Length
0.9h 2.5h to 100%
Value
$4.43/hr
Reviews
63% of 1,322 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

Discounted in 6 of its last 7 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

Raising the score
Engagement6% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.43/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews63% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 34 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

In this single-player experience, you wake up on the 9th floor of an unknown building. The only way out of here is to detect and mark anomalies. One wrong move and you could be trapped forever.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1050 or AMD Radeon RX 580 or newer, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 15 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

It is less well reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. The Exit 8 ($3.99, scores 66) and The Baby In Yellow ($8.99, scores 68) both outscore it.

More about Lost in Anomaly

Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

The main story runs 0.9 hours. Doing everything runs 3, 2.8 times as long.

The drop-off

94% start to 6% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Lost in Anomaly scores 10/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3312020/lost-in-anomaly
Embed the live badge

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 27, 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

DeveloperAxakal Interactive
PublisherAxakal Interactive
GenreShort indie
Released2024
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements7