Oxenfree
Worth it · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.58.
- Length
- 4.5h
- Value
- $2.22/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1GB Shader Model 3.0 Compatible (DirectX 9.0c), 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
What drives the score
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in February 2021. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 52 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $4.58, a level the record has reached 15 times.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Life is Strange - Episode 1 (free, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Unavowed ($14.99, scores 64).
The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 44 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 4 of the 723 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 684 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.5 hours. Doing everything runs 13, 2.9 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
50% start to 44% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
11 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Forever one of my favorite games, ♥♥♥♥ Netflix for what they did to Night School Studio
Creepy visual novel with fantastic voice acting. The dialogue system was different to other games, allowing you to react in the moment, and felt really immersive. Lots of supernatural creepiness and choices which impact the direction of the story.
My favorite part was when Oxenfree put on his sunglasses and said, "Olly olly, mother*uckers" at the end.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Oxenfree scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/388880/oxenfreeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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