The Next Door
Skip · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 0.7h
- Value
- $7.13/hr
- Reviews
- 50% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, 2 GB, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Who looks out dreams? Who looks inside awakens?
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
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was September 2020. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 65 in the 11 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. 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 60 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math Kona ($14.99, scores 41) and Obduction ($29.99, scores 43) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Of the 352 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 183 reviews written there were positive, against 50 percent overall, and those are 49 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.7 hours; clearing it takes 2, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
Players
1 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
I only bought it for the wallpaper. Buy only on sale if you want the void wallpaper!
I got this game for the background but the emotional distress this ♥♥♥♥ caused me was nowhere near the worth.
The Next Door is an independent horror title from SA Industry that builds its experience around suspense, investigation, and psychological discomfort rather than fast-paced action. Set within a seemingly ordinary residential environment, the game transforms a familiar setting into a source of fear by encouraging players to investigate mysterious events connected to a neighboring apartment. What begins as a simple...
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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The Next Door scores 0/100 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/447850/the-next-doorThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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