Dark Deception

Dark Deception

Worth it · Action · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

PriceS
Free to play
Reviews▼
88% of 24,571
Genre rank
Top 2% Action

Holding it back: Reviews

Time and effort

Main story
2.6h
Achievements
40

Players and genre

Online
206 now
Recent reviews
84% 30 days
Better reviewed
94% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

45% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Zardy's Maze (free, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats SCP: Labrat (free, scores 59).

It is still busy. 206 players were online when we last checked, on Oct 30, 15:46 UTC, across 28 days of weekly checks.

More about Dark Deception

Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 126 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reach1.5M+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
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

Death awaits you in Dark Deception, a story-driven first-person horror maze game. There's nowhere to hide & nowhere to catch your breath. Run or die - it's your choice. Trapped in a realm of nightmarish mazes with a mysterious woman, your only hope of survival is to find a way to escape.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/ AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Dark Deception scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/332950/dark-deception
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperGlowstick Entertainment
PublisherGlowstick Entertainment
GenreAction
Released2018
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements40