Photomaly
Fair · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.7h
- Value
- $4.11/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti / AMD RX 560, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
A PSX-style horror game where you manage a photo studio. Restock supplies, buy upgrades, photograph customers and print their order whilst encountering unexpected events.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.59, set in July 2026. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 73 days tracked here, most recently in September 2026.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. It scores the same as Ostriv, which costs $24.99. This one is $6.99.
This site sampled 417 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 624 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 531 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
At 1.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
94% start to 26% 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
18 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 06:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Photomaly scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4286120/photomalyReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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