Emily Wants to Play Too

Emily Wants to Play Too

Fair · Action · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.6h 4.7h to 100%
Value
$2.22/hr
Reviews
81% of 563 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

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

Holding it back
Value$2.22/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews81% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 369 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

About the game

No one believed the pizza guy. They kept the dolls. A sandwich delivery guy is on his way to Central Evidence. He is not ready for what he finds. Emily and the dolls are back with new friends, scares and more. Use stealth and strategy to survive their unique games in this survival horror.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: Nvidia GTX 770 or equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

83 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 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 pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners ($19.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats The Wild Eight ($2.49, scores 23).

More about Emily Wants to Play Too

This site sampled 369 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 193 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

40% start to 8% 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

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 09:56 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

It bluescreened my computer several times. It feels like it was put together by a meth dealer converted into a cultist and then trained by Terry Davis. I couldn't understand anything half of the time and my body still shakes in fear whenever the lights turn off. Overall, a relic of history, and one of the worst best horror games of the early 2010s. I still play it occasionally
KittyCaliMariRecommendedafter 9.6hJun 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
This is a fun but challenging game for the Emily Wants to Play saga. The ending for me was quite irritating having to find Emily three times, while those dolls were out and about two of whom give chase. For those that cannot deal with jump scares, there is a easy way to turn them off for an easier experience. Can't wait for part three.
ScarfyTVRecommendedafter 4.6hApr 2026Read on Steam
Emily Wants to Play Too is a first-person indie horror experience developed by Shawn Hitchcock and published by Hitchcock Games that expands on the tense, rule-driven terror of its predecessor with a broader setting, a larger cast of antagonists, and more complex survival demands. What begins as a mundane late-night delivery job quickly spirals into a nightmarish ordeal, trapping the player inside a sprawling, dimly...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 9.9hDec 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Emily Wants to Play Too scores 51/100 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/652190/emily-wants-to-play-too
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Details

DeveloperShawn Hitchcock
PublisherHitchcock Games
GenreAction
Released2017
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements14