ARAYA
Skip · Action · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.5h 4.8h to 100%
- Value
- $4.28/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 858 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2457 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
ARAYA is a first person horror game. Players will get a new thrilling experience inside a Thai hospital. The story will be told from the perspectives of 3 different characters. Players will explore different areas of the hospital in order to piece together the mysterious murder case of Araya.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVDIA Geforce GTX 560 1GB / Radeon R7 250X 1 GB, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 18 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 351 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 30 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. On the same math Emily Wants To Play ($4.99, scores 51) and Escape the Backrooms ($9.99, scores 77) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about ARAYA
Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 2 of the 265 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 230 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% start to 22% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Scary game. Plus if you tilt your camera straight down, you can see boobs. Rating: 7/10
1 more review
Summary Category Perception Level design Looks good. Occasionally confusing Art Consistent art style. Looks good overall, but has a decent amount of Z-fighting Sound design Good sound design. Does a good job building tension Story Decently good with some twists towards the end Gameplay Exploration, simple objectives (collect items) and chase scenes Bugs/glitches Very clanky mechanics and goofy animations, among some...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ARAYA scores 38/100 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/466740/arayaReviews 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.