The Visitor
Skip · Short indie · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 0.2h 0.2h to 100%
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 76% of 210 positive
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
The Visitor is a VR horror experience about an unexpected visitor calling to your door in the middle of the night. The game relies heavily on atmosphere, utilizing a dark environment to make the player both as nervous and uncomfortable as possible.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
On value it sits in the top 34 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Tetris® Effect: Connected ($39.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Anarchy Arcade (free, scores 21).
More about The Visitor
Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 176 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 98 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
This is the kind of game you show your friends who have never tried virtual reality before. To show them how the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive can draw on your fear just as well as reality can. I told my friends that if they wanted to try my Rift for real, they would have to play through this game, lasting roughly 10 minutes, as a test of their dedication to try virtual reality xD Needless to say, I sat and tried to hold...
1 more review, not recommended
The Visitor is a "sometimes" free VR exclusive ambient horror "game" that features little or no interaction from the gamer, instead you look at low quality, asset flip tier environments and learn a new understanding of just how bad entry level game development has become. This seems to have been made a VR exclusive to prevent any comparison with non-VR 3D games, a comparison that this game would fail very badly at...
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Cite this score
The Visitor scores 37/100 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/457580/the-visitorReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.