The Invisible Hours
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$29.99Skip
On its price record
$24.02Fair
- Length
- 3.2h 7.1h to 100%
- Value
- $9.37/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 525 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $24.02 or less.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2064 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
The Invisible Hours is a complex murder mystery in VR, in which players freely explore an intricate web of interwoven stories within a sprawling mansion. This is not a game. This is not a movie. This is a piece of immersive theatre with many tangled threads.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1060 / 970 equivalent or greater, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
18 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 295 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 26 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Myst ($20.99, scores 51) outscores it, and so does Riven ($20.99, scores 68). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about The Invisible Hours
The main story runs 3.2 hours. Doing everything runs 7, 2.2 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
79% start to 9% 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
An interesting format for storytelling, but the story they tell is "we should sacrifice ourselves to Elon Musk because he's a genius that will save humanity." Booo. I know media literacy is dead because zero reviews mention this and it is not even the subtext of the game, it is just the text.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It seems like a good game based on other reviews, but unfortunately, I was unable to play it due to the voices not working. If you do buy the game, I suggest trying to play the first 10 minutes and checking if the NPC voices are working. If they aren't, do not play the game for more than 2 hours, as you will be less likely to get a refund (I spent 5 hours trying to figure out the audio issues, but was unable to...
This is one of my absolute favourite games on here, though it's not really a game... more an experience. You are trying to discover how Tesla died, and you can follow around the cast of characters and basically be like a detective but not be seen. You can rewind, fast forward, and see all events from everyone's perspective to try and figure it out. I had so much fun figuring it out and really enjoyed the story and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Invisible Hours scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/582560/the-invisible-hoursReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.