Shutter
Skip · Narrative · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Length
- 0.9h 1.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.21/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 218 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 830 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
About the game
Re-live a dark and haunting tale in this fixed camera puzzle-horror game RE-miniscent of the first generation of survival horror games.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 543 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
54 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 119 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 41 percent on value. It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day ($9.99, scores 38) beats it on value, while it beats Dear Esther: Landmark Edition ($1.99, scores 35).
More about Shutter
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 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. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 106 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 73 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
9% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
I wasn't very sure what to expect with "drone horror" and you'd think I didn't enjoy myself with the way I phrase it. That isn't true. Shutter, for what it is, is a nice little experience that'll make you ask yourself why didn't someone think of this sooner. It's a nice idea. Unique with a story that makes you go, "*inhale* OHHH." But Shutter isn't reinventing the horror wheel. It's your run-of-the-mill horror game...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It is always nice to see when the appropriate games get greenlit by the community - Shutter is another great example for that. This is a neat little game where we control a small RC car equipped with a camera - this surveillance unit is to be used to discover the strange occurrences surrounding a house. We are constantly in contact with a software engineer, a guy who asks us where to go and what to take a photo of...
It's...not that good. The game is very short and an achievement to beat the game in under 9:30 just highlights that fact. The scares and objectives are fixed leaving no replayability, and you'll quickly learn to just hold the space bar for photo mode since it provides the best camera view and taking photos is how you progress anyway. That means the energy bar's function is entirely pointless, since it drains if you...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shutter scores 37/100 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/359560/shutterReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.