The Park®
Skip · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 19, under the fair line, at $12.99.
- Length
- 1.5h
- Value
- $8.66/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD4400 / AMD Radeon 5750 1Gb VRAM / NVidia Geforce 640 1Gb VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.24, set in September 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 81 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Homesick ($14.99, scores 38) beats it on value, while it beats Silver Chains ($24.99, scores 16).
6 of the 488 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 1,510 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 60 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
85% start to 19% 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
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 15:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
the park is one of those games that proves you don't need endless jump scares to make people uncomfortable. It's short, but it builds a creepy atmosphere that sticks with you long after you finish. the abandoned amusement park feels unsettling from the first minute, and the sound design does a lot of the heavy lifting. the story is where the game really shines. it deals with grief, guilt, and mental health in a way...
Are you looking for a walking simulator game where you can stroll through an empty, dilapidated, and abandoned amusement park? This is the game for you. As it turned out, this game actually had lore-which I only discovered after finishing the game. If you were a little bit confused after finishing the game and want to know more, check out the discussion section of this game. I found it interesting.
Its a walking simulator, no more or no less. It's.... ok I spose. You go in the amusment park to find your kid, walk around for a bit, then the game ends in an interrogation room with you explaining where you last saw your son. Oh, and its mostly pyschological horror stuff, which is done ok, but not my cup of tea. Overall, a mostly uninteresting story with just ok environments and atmosphere. However, literally all...
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Cite this score
The Park® scores 19/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/402020/the-parkReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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