Access Denied
Fair · Short indie · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.4h 1.9h to 100%
- Value
- $2.14/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 422 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Access Denied is a puzzle game in the world where for storage of personal data are used special device in the form of protected boxes. Imagine yourself in the role of the professional cracker of such devices and test your skills for 36 different levels.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GPU with 1 GB Video RAM, 799 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 61 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. On the same math Cyber Manhunt ($9.99, scores 78) and Zup! F ($1.99, scores 88) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Access Denied
Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 150 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
60% start to 30% 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
For the most part the puzzle design was really bad. Can not recommend even on discount.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
An amalgamation of disjointed design ideas Difficulty: All over the place The game consist of 36 different small-scope boxes, each usually requires a gimmick or two to solve. Some require observation, some pattern recognition, some blind experimentation. The majority are ridiculously easy, some are actually good and fun, some expect you to take wild logic leaps with moon logic. But there is no coherent design...
A collection of 36 boxes with puzzles on each side. Your goal is to complete the puzzles in order to open the boxes. Most of these puzzles are pretty fun and challenging. Some may be a little confusing, but eventually you get there. Overall, this has really nice visuals and puzzle variery. In my opinion, this is worth its cheap price.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Access Denied scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/562570/access-deniedReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.