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2016 · Puzzle · Horror · Mystery

How long isThe Guest?

by Team Gotham

3.5 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 2.5 hours and 5.5 hours

On the short side for an adventure game: 3.5 hours for the typical player, shorter than 1,697 of 2,083 adventure games here.

Do the first two hours of The Guest tell you?

In the first two hours48%recommend it

After that79%recommend it

13 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 7 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 3.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 2.5 hours and 5.5 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 988 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

16% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 48% of those recommend it. After the window, 79% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 67% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 2.5 hours in.

When would you get there?

4days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 3.5 hours on Saturday, October 24.

Half of its reviewers had played between 2.5 and 5.5 hours: Oct 23 to Oct 26 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.

Where do players get filtered in The Guest?

The filter

Supervisor

5 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold A New Beginning and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. New WorldGet into the secret room.−6931% hold it
  3. MemoiresWrite BENEFACTOR on the typing machine.−130% hold it
  4. A New BeginningGet to the end.−129% hold it
  5. SupervisorType the password in the computer.Filtered −524% hold it
How this is counted

31% of the players who launched The Guest hold New World, its first story achievement on Steam, and 24% hold Supervisor, its last. The steepest drop comes between A New Beginning (29%) and Supervisor (24%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is The Guest worth it?

Is The Guest worth it? Probably not.

  • Pricey per hour

    A typical adventure game gives 1.3× the hours for the money

  • Mixed

    79% recommend it after the refund windowmost adventure games: 90%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $9.99, the typical player's 3.5 hours come to $2.85 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 79% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $2.85 an hour, The Guest costs more per hour than 1327 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 The Guest?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Guest, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Guest would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

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.

@foxworks holds this page

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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

What did people here do with The Guest?

  • 1 in 3,480

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

Games like The Guest

All 30 games like The Guest, and which you already own
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.