Inner Chains

Inner Chains

Skip · Shooter · 2017

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
4.6h
Value
$4.35/hr
Reviews
48% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
4.6h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
8h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.35
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
48%
608 reviews, as of Sep 28
Metacritic
40
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.

An FPS horror game set in a surreal, dark and deadly biomechanical world never seen before. Humankind is just a small part of a hostile universe. Want to survive? Discover its secrets.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Value$4.35/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews48% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 49% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length4.6 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 167 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in March 2024. It has been discounted 82 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 85 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 96 percent. On the same math Scorn ($3.99, scores 49) and Choo-Choo Charles ($19.99, scores 60) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

The press gave it 40; the people who bought it give it 48 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 114 reviews written there were positive, against 48 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

71% start to 17% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Inner Chains scores 0/100 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/537430/inner-chains
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Reviews 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 1.

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Critics vs players+8
Critics
40
Players
48
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 608 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTelepaths Tree
PublisherIMGN.PRO
GenreShooter
Released2017
Achievements29