Stay Close
Skip · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 9, under the fair line, at $8.99.
- Length
- 2.7h
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 62% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 560 (Q4 2010), 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Stay Close is open-world horror game, with options for single-player and co-op. It has an unique and new gameplay approach unseen so far in any other game. You'll find yourself in a creepy and anomalous town, what is your next move?
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
It has never been cheaper than $2.96. That was June 2023. 49 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 56 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.
It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Passing Pineview Forest (free, scores 17) beats it on value, while it beats Sign of Silence ($4.99, scores 0).
Of the 674 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 33 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 13 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 4 of the 33 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 605 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
84% start to <1% 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
What players say
Summary: pretty fun +Fun riddles +Fun first encounters with monsters +Fun Weeping angel + reverse weeping angel monster +Darkness -Only 2 monsters that are a threat (Weeping angel + reverse weeping angel) -Whatever the frog monster is doing? -Softlocks -Hard to navigate at the start -Repetitive -No brightness setting
The whole apartment building really enjoyed listening to me when I played this game. ''TY VOLE SVIT NA TU BILOU MRDKU'' ''TY PICO UZ TO BĚŽÍ''
Fantastic fun! I can't believe how long it's taken me to write this review. I played this years ago with a friend and it was an absolute blast! Atmosphere, different types of enemies with different mechanics, riddles, and each area of the map were curated wonderfully. It made for great content farming and I highly recommend for my creators out there!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Stay Close scores 9/100 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/455120/stay-closeReviews 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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