Deceive Inc.

Deceive Inc.

Fair · Multiplayer · 2023

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
10.1h
Value
$0.20/hr
Reviews
81% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
10.1h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
70.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.20
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$1.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
81%
7,878 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 or AMD Radeon R7 265, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.

Go undercover as the world’s greatest spies in this tense multiplayer game of subterfuge. Disguise as anyone, deploy an arsenal of high-tech gadgets or neutralize the competition. As long as you extract with the objective, no trick is too dirty when you work for DECEIVE INC.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
Holding it back
Reviews81% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
MonetizationIn-app purchases
Steam lists in-app purchases and nothing more is known, so a small haircut
For context
Value$0.20/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length10 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
Refunds19 of 800 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

The value story

November 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. It has been discounted 29 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

Value puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Friends vs Friends ($9.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats AXYOS ($4.99, scores 0).

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 19 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 439 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 10.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 70, 7.0 times as much.

Players

50 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 21:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Deceive Inc. scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/820520/deceive-inc
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSweet Bandits Studios
PublisherTripwire Presents
GenreMultiplayer
Released2023