Welcome to the Game
Fair · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.9h
- Value
- $0.85/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1024MB, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Welcome to the Game is a creepy horror/puzzle game that takes you into the world of the Deep Web. Explore the Deep Web with the sole purpose of trying to find a Red Room, an online service / website that allows you to see and participate in interactive torture and murder.
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 $0.99. That was June 2017. It has been discounted 39 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 15 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Scrutinized ($9.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Welcome to the Game II ($9.99, scores 58).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 12 of the 441 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 270 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 1,011 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 5.9 hours; clearing it takes 14, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
72% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 5.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 10:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
99% of the time you are never hearing the dude at the front door xD.. this game is an actual slopfest the sound cues are dog ass i cant wait to beat ts and never touch it again
Don't play this with an ultrawide screen. Hacks are wildly too difficult Time frame is wildly too punishing in combination with the stupid hard hacks audio cues don't work half the time One extremely unforgiving puzzle for colorblind people This game is half assed, but sits on a wonderful concept. I hope the other games aren't nearly as TRASH as this one is.
Breather called. 2 Minutes later I was brought back to the main menu thanks to him.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Welcome to the Game scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/485380/welcome-to-the-gameReviews 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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