The Evil Within

The Evil Within

Steam Deck Verified

Tango Gameworks · Horror · Oct 13, 2014

Yes, worth buying.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $4.99.

85%
Very Positive
33k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Graphics: 34 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Controls: 9 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Optimization: 8 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Combat: 58 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Difficulty: 30 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 27 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 33k player reviews · updated 3 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
25% of themes are praise42% are divided33% are caveats
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
I had to use the nVidia app's built-in graphics settings optimizer to get this working on a 2026 era PC.
34 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Controls
Players who bring up Controls mostly praise it.
However, the pad control layout is well made for the controller users, probably because the devs chose to once again concentrate making this game accessible for console/controller users.
9 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Optimization
Players who bring up Optimization mostly praise it.
The graphics is great, and run fine-ish on my goofy ahh laptop, i think this is a bit bad on optimization for a 2014 game.
8 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love3 themes
Graphics34 reviews
Controls9 reviews
Optimization8 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Story and characters123 reviews
72%
Gameplay71 reviews
72%
Performance33 reviews
67%
Interface11 reviews
82%
Audio11 reviews
82%
Players complain% still recommend
Combat58 reviews
78%
Difficulty30 reviews
83%
Crashes27 reviews
48%
Bugs16 reviews
31%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $4.99 (−75%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

5 points recordedtoday · $4.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
85%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
71
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.