The Tape
Skip · Short indie · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 1, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 0.7h 6.5h to 100%
- Value
- $4.27/hr
- Reviews
- 55% of 493 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
The Tape is a slow and creepy first person horror game, with mystical story and abstract psychological elements.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128MB Video Card with OpenGL support, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
77 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 51 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. On the same math SEPTEMBER 1999 (free, scores 60) and Perfect Vermin (free, scores 80) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about The Tape
Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 245 reviews written there were positive, against 55 percent overall, and those are 67 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.7 hours; clearing it takes 7, which is 9.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
5% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Just not worth your time. You've played this game before I guarantee it. If you've spent more than a year or two on Steam, you've already experienced this exact formula. You already know how it starts, how it ends, what the environments look like, and how every obstacle will play out. I don't like to hate on games, I just played these types of games way to often and I'm beyond tired of them. I got this through a...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Tape scores 1/100 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/387930/the-tapeReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.