Steam Prison
Fair · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $13.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 23.1h
- Value
- $0.61/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1280 x 720 Supported, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
There are two kinds of people: the rulers and the ruled. The Heights are a gorgeous utopia. The Depths, a filthy industrial wasteland. Our heroine, raised in the Heights, has nothing but contempt for those below.
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
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $13.99. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 48 in the 8 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $13.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 53 at list, 62 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Life is Strange Remastered ($39.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered ($39.99, scores 44).
None of the 290 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 23.1 hours; clearing it takes 47, which is 2.0 times the campaign.
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Steam Prison scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/977460/steam-prisonThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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