Vigil
Fair · Action · 2025
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 0.4h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1550 / AMD RX 550, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Vigil is a short Narrative Horror Game that takes place in an unsettling underground facility. Your job is to dispose of boxes, however, you’re not alone. A terrifying automaton roams the facility, moving only when you look away or when you blink in real life.
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
- Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
The value story
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Maelstrom (free, scores 60) and Scary Game 2: The Mad Shepherd ($1.99, scores 60).
Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
Finishing takes 0.4 hours; clearing it takes 1, which is 2.0 times the campaign.
7 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 30, 19:48 UTC.
The drop-off
89% start to 29% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 19:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Vigil scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 2,193 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3817090/vigilReviews 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 Sep 26.
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