Investigator
Skip · Strategy · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 2.5h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 69% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 460 2 Gb/Radeon 6850 2 Gb, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Investigator is a first-person exploration game with horror elements, where the events take place in a world of extreme weather cataclysms.
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 is less well reviewed than 72 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Long Dark ($34.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Paradise Lost ($14.99, scores 9).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 243 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
2.5 hours to finish it, 5 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
42% start to 4% 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
A good walking sims game to play for the experience. Fun. Might have to "windows tab" out of game.
Investigator is an atmospheric horror game using the Cry Engine. And this shows. Graphics are amazing. Texture details, foilage and weather effects are all top notch. Now for the game itself, it's a bit of a weird one. It's mostly a walking sim with cut scenes. Hardly any action, hardly any puzzles. Just looking around and finding the right items to enfold the story. And that story is also really weird. Not even...
Investigator, developed and published by AdroVGames, is an atmospheric first-person exploration horror game that invites players into a world on the brink of ruin. Set after an unspecified environmental catastrophe, the game casts you as a former private investigator wandering through desolate towns, flooded fields, and decrepit buildings in search of shelter and meaning. Built on CryEngine, Investigator aims to...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Investigator scores 23/100 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/482300/investigatorReviews 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 27.
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