Beyond: Two Souls
Worth it · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99.
- Length
- 10.7h
- Value
- $0.19/hr
- Reviews
- 88% 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, 49 GB of storage. Windows only.
A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in August 2026. It has been discounted 69 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $1.99 at 90 percent off still sits 101 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 65 at list, 79 today.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Detroit: Become Human ($7.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Heavy Rain ($1.99, scores 74).
76 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 2,177 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
10.7 hours to finish it, 28 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
84% start to 26% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
210 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
I'm genuinely not sure how this game has "Very positive" overall reviews. I wanted to like it, and I gave it more than a fair shot, but the writing goes from "decent" in he first half of the game to utter trash that feels like it was written by interns or the result of rushed development in the latter half. I'm not even sure if I will bother finishing it at this point. The Navajo and Middle East levels in particular...
Worst controls movements & implementation i have ever seen, camera movement is even worse, to bad bcs is destroying what can be a decent story. I can't play the game this way, i really tried....
I was born with a strange gift, the ability to fart the alphabet! Had a bad outcome, because I wasn't able to see the quick-time events through my tears. I'm not crying, you are. Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you this game, which is kind of the same thing. Doesn't it suck when you see reviews for games you liked, and they disappoint you? Or you feel guilty for actually liking a game that many don't...
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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Beyond: Two Souls scores 79/100 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/960990/beyond-two-soulsThe 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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