Heavy Rain
Worth it · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99.
- Length
- 10h
- Value
- $0.20/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 with 2GB VRAM or AMD Radeon HD 7870 with 2GB VRAM, 35 GB of storage. Windows only.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 68 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 90 percent off still sits 101 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 60. With it, 74.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Detroit: Become Human ($7.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure ($1.59, scores 73).
75 from critics against 86 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 19 percent of players ever finish it. On a 10-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 2,038 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 10 hours; clearing it takes 22, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
At 10 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
53% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
199 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
One of the best story games ever imo. I like the mystery that accompanies you throughout the entire game. Better than detroit
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5) Do try this if you see it on sale -Good story -Classic murder mystery -Good Sound track -Story felt a bit slow at times, but not a dealbreaker. -I hate this game's mechanics but hey its made for controllers and i played it on PC in 2026.
2010 really must have been desperate times if this game was all the hype on Playstation back then. QTE simulator with weak plot full of holes where all choices are either obvious, pointless or have absolutely random consequences.
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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Heavy Rain scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/960910/heavy-rainThe 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 18, price as of Sep 24.
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