Perception
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.6h 7.6h to 100%
- Value
- $4.16/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 635 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
An award-winning narrative thriller about a blind woman’s journey to uncover the truth about the mansion from her nightmares, or else become one of its victims.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or Radeon 6870, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
49 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway ($9.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Through the Woods ($19.99, scores 20).
More about Perception
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 267 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 141 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.6 hours; clearing it takes 8, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
55% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Perception is a distinctive survival-horror experience that builds its entire identity around a single, daring idea: navigating fear through sound rather than sight. Developed and published by The Deep End Games, the game places players in the role of Cassie Thornton, a blind woman drawn to a decaying mansion by recurring nightmares. From the moment the experience begins, Perception makes it clear that it is less...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
If you've seen Daredevil (Ben Affleck or Charlie Cox, take your pick), then you surely knew Matt Murdock. He uses his enhanced hearing, which is often described as a "radar sense" to perceive his surroundings, which functions similarly to echolocation. While this ability allows him to create a 360-degree mental map of inanimate objects through sound, he primarily uses a combination of sounds like heartbeats and...
I gave it up because it was'nt interesting enough to keep me going but the idea and originality of it was good.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Perception scores 25/100 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/426310/perceptionReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.