Scorn
Skip · Shooter · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $3.99.
- Length
- 5.3h
- Value
- $0.75/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (3 GB), 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in March 2026. 36 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 29 at list, 50 today.
On value it sits in the top 36 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre. Amnesia: The Dark Descent ($19.99, scores 71) outscores it, and so does Outlast 2 ($19.99, scores 64). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 1,888 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
52% start to 22% 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
Players
20 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I wish that it was better. Scorn is a game with fantastic art direction, a beautiful soundtrack, and seemingly very deep lore, as well as interesting puzzles. Where it falls short for me is every other aspect of gameplay. Your movement speed is slow as hell, the combat feels sluggish and unnecessary, and the random saving can completely ruin runs. Not to mention that twice throughout the game, I had to restart it so...
The Feeling of Being Here Scorn is almost pure phenomenology turned into an interactive experience. It doesn't simply try to scare or shock you. Instead, it gradually puts you into a state that resonates strongly with Martin Heidegger's ideas - especially his concept of being-in-the-world (In-der-Welt-sein) and thrownness (Geworfenheit). Being Thrown Into Existence In Scorn, you get no narrative framework, no...
🎮 The Story: The game starts when a humanoid wakes up half-conscious, falls deep underground into a biomechanical labyrinth-type world, and tries to escape by solving puzzles. ✅ PROS: - Art design is really beautiful. - Great sounds. - Health and ammo stations are unique and have cool animations. - The game has a perfect length, not too short, not too long. - Good world atmosphere. - Enjoyable puzzles. ❌ CONS: - The...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Scorn scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/698670/scornThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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