2026 · Choices Matter · Horror · Survival Horror
How long isDirective 8020?
by Supermassive Games
7.5 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 5 hours and 12 hours
Steep for its length: $6.67 an hour, dearer than 2,020 of 2,083 adventure games here.
29% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
56% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
63% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
76% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
Does Directive 8020 hold up?
Grows on people
Do the first two hours of Directive 8020 tell you?
In the first two hours29%recommend it
After that67%recommend it
15 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 5 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 7.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 5 hours and 12 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 2,340 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 56% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 76% at 10–20 hours.
12% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 29% of those recommend it. After the window, 67% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 77% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 6 hours in.
When would you get there?
8days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 7.5 hours on Wednesday, October 28.
Half of its reviewers had played between 5 and 12 hours: Oct 25 to Nov 1 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is Directive 8020 worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Directive 8020
- Steam list price, US
- $49.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 7.5 h
- adventure game rate
- $2.22/h
- 7.5 h at that rate
- $17
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Directive 8020 worth it? It depends.
Pricey per hour
A typical adventure game gives 3× the hours for the money
Mixed
67% recommend it after the refund windowmost adventure games: 90%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $49.99, the typical player's 7.5 hours come to $6.67 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 67% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $6.67 an hour, Directive 8020 costs more per hour than 2020 of 2083 adventure games here: the typical one of 2083 adventure games here charges $2.22.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (adventure games) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Would you like Directive 8020?
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How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
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How this is counted
The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.