The Beast Inside
Skip · Action · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 48, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $3.05/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2GB / Radeon R9 200 Series or Nvidia GeForce GTX660, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was October 2021. It has been discounted 74 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, CASE: Animatronics ($9.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Maid of Sker ($24.99, scores 36).
Critics scored it 74. Players sit 9 points higher at 83 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 399 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 1,475 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
76% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On an 8.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 04:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The only good thing in the game is its potential for a soviet spies story, which had a solid basis, but didn't have a resolution. All other aspects of the game are really weak and mediocre at best. One half of the game about the past has horrible gameplay - I would rather have it completely cut and play the other half about spies and riddles. Gameplay 2/10 Visuals 4/10 Story 3/10 Soundtrack 4/10 Total 3/10
Its a fine game but its too annoying to recommend unless its on a deep sale. There were a few areas where I had to search online what to do. Any game that makes you look outside of the game for help is a failure.
The Beast Inside is an survival Horror-Game with Adventure-Elements. I liked the early part of the game a lot but with the progessing story it goes more and more weird (not in a good way). I think the game could be much shorter. The gameplay is functional, more or less. The Puzzles are okay but at some of them you have no clue what to do, if i remember correctly. The highlight of the game are the animations and the...
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Cite this score
The Beast Inside scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/792300/the-beast-insideReviews 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 25, price as of Oct 1.
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