Detention
Worth it · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$11.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9975% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.63/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 11,855
- Critics
- 83 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.3h
- To 100%
- 4.2h 1.3x the story
- Achievements
- 8
Price and sales
- Sales
- 55 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $2.39 June 2026
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 9 now
- Cheaper than
- 27% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
61% start to 12% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 55 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $6.44, a level the record has reached 51 times.
Its score sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Downfall ($8.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Little Misfortune ($19.99, scores 59).
More about Detention
The press gave it 83; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. A 13-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 462 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 1,269 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.39 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Trauma manifest > Ghosts Detention is a game disturbing for none of the reasons you would expect. To go into the theming too deeply would undermine the way that the story evolves, so I would encourage simply picking it up and giving it a play. A SURFACE LEVEL REVIEW [*]The graphical style harkens images of old sepia photographs, a window into a colourless past [*]Atmopsheric would be the word to use for the game's...
1 more review, not recommended
Frankly, i'm not a huge fan of these slow, sidescrolling horror games, but I wanted to check out what RedCandleGames made before the excellent Nine Sols. While this game's narrative ends up being relatively good as an idea, the execution and slow pace detracted from the experience, as well as the gameplay being boring with puzzles and enemies that failed to engage me in any meaningful way.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce 9600 GS, Radeon HD4000, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Detention scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/555220/detentionReviews 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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.