Pacify

Pacify

Fair · Multiplayer · 2019

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hour
$2.27/hr
Reviews▼
86% of 42,872
Genre rank
Top 6% Multiplayer

Holding it back: Recent reviews, Reviews

Recent reviews trending down: 74% over the last 30 days against 86% all-time.

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
2.2h
To 100%
16.3h 7.4x the story
Achievements
52

Price and sales

Sales
79 on record
Typical cut
30% off
Steam low
$2.09 October 2026
Sale every
35d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $2.09 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
178 now
Recent reviews
74% 30 days
Cheaper than
64% of its genre
Better reviewed
90% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

77% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 79 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.

Its score puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Content Warning ($7.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Lunch Lady ($4.99, scores 62).

More about Pacify

Players rate it 86 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 74 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 52 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 244 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 10,371 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 2.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 16, 7.4 times as much.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

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

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

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
Reach3.5M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Recent reviews74% (30 days)
Trending down vs lifetime, a small dip
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds52 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

i had fun on the first two maps but then the witch and hq straight molested me and my 3 other friends 9/10
CorbianStRecommendedafter 2.8h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
first 3 levels are fun. after that developers wacko and created 4th level and its frustrating and anoying.I guess developers where high on something when they designed last level.
MeoW* iS back-Old A/C retrievedRecommendedafter 17h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Pacify Buggy game. Not recommended. The first couple of maps can actually be fun with friends. You run around screaming, grab whatever the game tells you to grab, someone gets caught, everyone panics, and the slowest person becomes the sacrifice. Good co-op horror nonsense. Then the bugs start. AI gets weird. Enemies can camp important areas. Progression can become confusing. Some objectives feel inconsistent. And...
phucdatbichNot recommendedafter 7.8h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Graphics: GTX 1050 / RX 580 or equivalent (4 GB), 7 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Pacify scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/967050/pacify
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperShawn Hitchcock
PublisherHitchcock Games
GenreMultiplayer
Released2019
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements52