STAY
Skip · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 20, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 6.3h 9.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.90/hr
- Reviews
- 68% of 568 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 102 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
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 8800 GT, AMD 5670, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
61 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 15 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 83 percent. On the same math Gods Will Be Watching ($9.99, scores 26) and Beholder: Conductor ($13.99, scores 71) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about STAY
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
At 6.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
76% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
STAY, developed and published by Appnormals Team, is a haunting psychological adventure that explores loneliness, guilt, and the fragile nature of human connection through an unconventional storytelling format. Instead of controlling a traditional character, you communicate in real time with Quinn, a man who wakes up trapped in a mysterious, dimly lit room with no recollection of how he got there. His only contact...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I don't care if you don't like to eat fortune cookies, if you've been lighting up my feed for the past ten minutes about how HUNGRY you are I'm going to click the eat the fortune cookie option. NO you don't have to eat the suspicious one in the box you can open one of the millions of Unopened boxes. NO I'm not telling you to open all the boxes! DONT THROW THE PHONE AT THE WALL YOU AS- Stay has a great a draw with...
A great idea which could have lead to several great experiences, but gets so frustrating and annoying. The start of the game it feelt awesome the art of the game is truly amazing i have to give them that. But the more you play you realize you are just babysitting an edgy and depressed adult which makes most of the time no sense whatso ever. Most of the puzzles are extremly poorly done, that gives you almost no clue...
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Cite this score
STAY scores 20/100 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/753230/stayReviews 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.