The Final Take
Skip · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $1.99.
- Length
- 0.7h
- Value
- $2.84/hr
- Reviews
- 55% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, nVidia 320M or higher, or Radeon 7000 or higher, or Intel HD 3000, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Relive dark footage recorded from the perspective of multiple characters in this unique first person horror.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.35, set in December 2022. It has been discounted 92 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Anna - Extended Edition ($9.99, scores 6) beats it on value, while it beats ADR1FT ($3.99, scores 1).
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On a 0.7-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 178 reviews written there were positive, against 55 percent overall, and those are 68 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
5% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 0.7-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
The Final Take, developed by HUSH Interactive and published by Forever Entertainment S. A., is a compact first-person horror experience that leans heavily on atmosphere and presentation rather than mechanical depth. It adopts a found-footage concept, presenting its story through fragmented perspectives that place the player inside a series of recorded events. This approach immediately gives the game a distinctive...
"What a waste of time" sentence from the game that describes game in its entirety. Slender clone with 4 chapters to complete. Levels set in different locations, but very basic. View in the game is super fuzzy so you can't see much. Use camera to see the ghost (can't see ghost in chapter 4) or floodlight to see better in the dark. In general super short and have nothing to offer. Skip.
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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The Final Take scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/400510/the-final-takeThe 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 23, price as of Sep 24.
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