Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Worth it · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $9.69.
- Length
- 9.2h
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 460, 24 GB of storage. Windows only.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was November 2022. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 84 in the 10 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $9.69 BANGER line 36 times.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games closest to it, Resident Evil Village ($39.99, scores 60) and The Evil Within 2 ($39.99, scores 66) both come in lower.
Critics scored it 83. Players sit 12 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 7 percent of players ever finish it. On a 9.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 3,838 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (unlock); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 9.2 hours; clearing it takes 29, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
It came out 9 years ago and 792 were still playing it at the last check.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
97% start to 7% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 9.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
792 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
the scariest resident evil game I played. Jack baker was scary for the time and Mageurite Is the scariest part of this whole game and Evelin was okay couldve been better but still good. And it is my second favourite game of all time behind Resident evil 4 remake. I recommend this game it is good try it.
Go tell Aunt Roady how to save the best gaming franchise Go tell Aunt Roady one of the most well optimized games I played Ran flawless on my Laptop and looked really good
At first, I really underestimated RE7. I thought it was just relying on a first-person perspective to become more horror, like so many other horror games do. It turns out I was wrong, really wrong. While the game is indeed "a bit" scarier than other RE titles, it remains true to the series roots. You start out weak, but at the end of game, you have so many weapon to kill those monsters (RE7 called them The mold). On...
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard 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/418370/resident-evil-7-biohazardThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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