Unheard - Voices of Crime

Unheard - Voices of Crime

BANGER · RPG · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER at $6.99. Typically $2.79 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.

Cost per hour▼
$1.70/hr
ReviewsS
96% of 34,218
Critics
72 players 24 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% RPG
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.

Time and effort

Main story
4.1h
To 100%
7.3h 1.8x the story
Achievements
12

Price and sales

Sales
64 on record
Typical cut
55% off
Steam low
$2.79 June 2023
Sale every
39d last October 2026
Lowest now $6.53 at Fanaticalall-time low $1.96 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
141 now
Recent reviews
93% 30 days
Cheaper than
57% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

96% start to 17% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 64 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 55 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. 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 100) beats it on value, while it beats Cyber Manhunt ($3.49, scores 86).

$10.64 is where it would stop being a BANGER.

More about Unheard - Voices of Crime

The press gave it 72; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. A 24-point gap in the buyer's favour.

9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,295 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 2,642 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.70/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds9 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

What players say

Achievement Hunting Rating 3/5 An interesting detective mystery game where you have to hear what each character says in the same timeframe. It reminds me a little of the game Tacoma in that you can scrub through the audio for each character to find the details needed to solve the case. You will need the DLC to 100% and unfortunately from what I found one of the two is only available in Chinese. But I did enjoy my...
ZoubdooRecommendedafter 6.2h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
Solid game for the price. The mechanic of an audio-only puzzle is cool, although pretty much all the base game cases are dead simple. The first (and only one in english) dlc solves pretty much all my problems by making the narrative multilayered enough to make the puzzle actually interesting. Worth picking up on sale.
armedturretRecommendedafter 6.3h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I love the concept of this game! Relying on sound to solve cases is a unique idea and I think this game executed it very well. My main qualm is honestly that there isn't more! A great shorter story that can be played in a few hours. I found that I was able to kinda guess how it was gonna end based on the context clues the game gave us (just enough to make it plausible but not obvious). I would love to see a longer...
LoraleiRecommendedafter 3.0hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 610, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Cite this score

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Unheard - Voices of Crime scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/942970/unheard-voices-of-crime
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Reviews 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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+24
Critics72
Players96
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 34,218 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperNEXT Studios
PublisherNEXT Studios
GenreRPG
Released2019
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12