Despair
Skip · Action · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $0.99.
- Reviews
- 34% of 1,822 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2113 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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
The main character wakes up in a tunnel of the subway and tries to find out that happened to it and other passengers of the train. To understand that after all it happened to the gone passengers, the player should investigate strange catacombs being deeply underground.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: DirectX9c compliant card with at least 1024MB of VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
25 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 51 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 302 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 90 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Agony ($14.99, scores 1) and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs ($19.99, scores 20) both outscore it.
More about Despair
Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 896 reviews written there were positive, against 34 percent overall, and those are 64 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Despair scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/368990/despairReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.