Observation
Skip · Narrative · 2020
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$24.99Skip
On its price record
$6.20Fair
- Length
- 5.9h 8.3h to 100%
- Value
- $4.24/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 5,223 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.20 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GT 640 (2048 MB) | Radeon HD 7750 (2048 MB), 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 47 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 45 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stories Untold ($9.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Moons of Madness ($24.99, scores 34).
More about Observation
3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 475 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Observation scores 35/100 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/906100/observationReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.