Unheard - Voices of Crime
BANGER · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.79.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $0.68/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 88% over the last 30 days against 96% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 610, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.79, set in June 2023. It has been discounted 62 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 55 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $2.79 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 93. With it, 96.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Murders on the Yangtze River ($8.99, scores 99) beats it on value, while it beats Cyber Manhunt ($3.49, scores 89).
$10.70 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $2.79.
The press gave it 72; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. A 24-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Players rate it 96 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 88 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,760 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 2,634 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
96% start to 17% 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
68 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
The concept is solid. Walking around, getting to eavesdrop on past events to solve crimes is immediately enticing. It's too bad that it just doesn't come together at all. I can't speak to how this game is in Chinese. I only played it in English, but the English voice acting was simply bad. This wouldn't normally be something I'd spend too much time on but considering the entire game is listening to people acting...
A novel idea whos execution makes it get old very quickly. Maybe its the fault of the localization, but the voice acting and text are giving big "community theater" energy. The voices and accents are very broad to the point of being laughable. Another reviewer was spot-on when they aid it sounds like a radio play. But the problem is it's a very poor radio made using the vernacular of the 1940s. Which makes it come...
The main game was enjoyable enough, I liked the idea of an audio detective. The thriller part was not my cup of tea though. And the "Lethal script" DLC was a bit too tangled up for my taste. It's a shame they didn't translate other DLCs to English, in my opinion. 7/10
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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Unheard - Voices of Crime scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/942970/unheard-voices-of-crimeThe 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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