Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Worth it · Strategy · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$15.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$2.3985% offBANGER

Cost per hour▼
$4.21/hr
ReviewsS
93% of 12,884
Genre rank
Top 4% Strategy

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 54% off ($7.37) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.39 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
3.8h
To 100%
17.9h 4.7x the story
Achievements
33

Price and sales

Sales
75 on record
Typical cut
72% off
Steam low
$1.27 May 2026
Sale every
36d last October 2026
Lowest now $1.27 at Fanaticalall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
159 now
Recent reviews
88% 30 days
Cheaper than
15% of its genre
Better reviewed
98% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

68% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

It has been discounted 75 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 72 percent, about 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.37. The record reaches that level 72 times.

Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Beholder ($13.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Beholder 3 ($17.99, scores 11).

More about Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Of the 757 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 16 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 730 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

3.8 hours to finish it, 18 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.7 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely between Dec 4 and Dec 17, at about $2.39 (85% off). Predictions like this were right 86% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks. Its own discounts have started about 79 days apart.

Last discount ended yesterday.

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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Cost per hour$4.21/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds16 of 757 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

What players say

🛑 GENERAL INFO ➤ Mission Status [*] ✅ 100% Completion [*] ⬛ Main Story Finished [*] ⬛ Still Playing / Endless [*] ⬛ Dropped (Got bored) [*] ⬛ Refunded ➤ Play Time [*] ⬛ Long enough for a cup of coffee (< 1h) [*] ⬛ Short (1h - 10h) [*] ✅ Average (10h - 40h) [*] ⬛ Long (40h - 100h) [*] ⬛ Very Long (100h+) [*] ⬛ Goodbye Real Life (∞) ➤ Price [*] ⬛ It's Free [*] ⬛ Worth Full Price [*] ✅ Wait for Sale [*] ⬛ Could be...
AnonymousRecommendedafter 12hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
10/10 would spy on strangers again. the game is weirdly hypnotic, but also dangerously easy to get bored of. suddenly your brain just goes "okay, i've fed enough monkeys for today."
made in the a.m.Recommendedafter 11h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Such a great concept with an even better execution. It's voyeurism (all very PG-13, mind you) at its finest, while challenging you with a plethora of scenarios that test your morality. As your player character themself is struggling to stay alive and make enough money to get through the week, are you willing to earn abit more cash to make your life easier, but in exchange, potentially sabotage or hurt someone you...
FazzlePNRecommendedafter 17h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 8600 GS, ATI Radeon HD 3470, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Do Not Feed the Monkeys scores 71/100 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/658850/do-not-feed-the-monkeys
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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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperFictiorama Studios
PublisherAlawar
GenreStrategy
Released2018
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements33