Doors

Doors

Skip · Strategy · 2016

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 12, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Length
1.2h 1.9h to 100%
Value
$4.16/hr
Reviews
64% of 308 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 3577 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

Holding it back
Value$4.16/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews64% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 65% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 22 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Doors is a short, atmospheric first person logic game created by a one-man-team. Taking inspiration from Limbo and The Stanley Parable, Doors attempts to bring something new to the puzzle genre.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has been discounted 4 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 19 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 511 weeks ago.

It is less well reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition ($4.49, scores 17) beats it on value, while it beats gravilon ($2.99, scores 5).

More about Doors

40 from critics against 64 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 158 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 69 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

53% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Short logic puzzle game of the variety where you establish which statements are true and which are false in order to chose the correct door. Unfortunately there's probably only about an hour's worth of puzzles - could have done with more. Instead it's padded out by an attempted Portal/Stanley Parable-esk inspired middle section that in my opinion doesn't really fit or pay-off. There some re-playability given that...
Thermal IonsRecommendedafter 2.4h27 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is a neat little game. And by little I mean both minimalistic and short. The logic puzzles that make up the core of the game are based around deductive reasoning. They range from very easy (introductory) to somewhat frustrating difficulties, but they're never too difficult to get through. And if you get stuck on one there's always the trial and error options of walking through doors, losing and retrying until...
LasverRecommendedafter 1.3h16 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Years passed since I've got Doors and played it, only thing that I can say for sure is that this game is indeed forgettable except part where it has achievement that you can't get. It's short game with some logic puzzles that weren't hard and whole game was made to look like The Stanley Parable (which is admitted in description on Store page as well), but even years after being introduced to Stanley I still remember...
Mn₂O₇Not recommendedafter 9.5hMar 2022Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Doors scores 12/100 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/395350/doors
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+24
Critics40
Players64
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 308 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCalvin Weibel
PublisherCalvin Weibel
GenreStrategy
Released2016
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements7