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Deceive Inc.
Go undercover as the world’s greatest spies in this tense multiplayer game of subterfuge. Disguise as anyone, deploy an arsenal of high-tech gadgets or neutralize the competition. As long as you extract with the objective, no trick is too dirty when you work for DECEIVE INC.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
44 of the 76 reviews raise this.
“Was Fun While It Lasted. Game was killed off by the devs for some reason and refused to make it F2P”
“One of the best games that never had a chance to be succesful.”
6 of the 76 reviews raise this.
“Hello, this is my very first Steam review. I recently saw the news about Sweet Bandits Studios, and it genuinely made me sad to hear that the team is being dissolved... The game they created is a true gem! The visuals…”
“Everything is basically perfect about this game, except for the fact that there is barely a playerbase anymore. The art style and gameplay are elite, this game is insanely unique and there is no other game that even…”
“70s retro-futuristic stylized extraction-shooter”
23 of the 76 reviews raise this · 14 of them still recommend the game.
“Was Fun While It Lasted. Game was killed off by the devs for some reason and refused to make it F2P”
“One of the best games that never had a chance to be succesful.”
23 of the 76 reviews raise this · 14 of them still recommend the game.
“DEAD GAME BUY BEWARE YOU CAN STILL PLAY THE GAME BUT YOU MOSTLY WILL BE PLAYING WITH BOTS THO IF YOU CAN, GET A COUPLE OF FRIENDS TO PLAY, IF YOU CAN, YOU CAN HAVE SOME FUN.”
“One of the most fun battle royales I have played but its dead :(”
10 of the 76 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Was Fun While It Lasted. Game was killed off by the devs for some reason and refused to make it F2P”
“Do not buy, the game is completely dead. It's insane that they're still charging money for this”
3 of the 76 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“This game was an amazing game when it came out. Its similar to Partygames like Among Us: its super fun with friends but when the game gets older, many tricks get found out and sometimes the community will get sweaty…”
“ughh such a nice concept but dead community or the same 5 sweats playing. I wish it still had an active playerbase (and make it more beginner friendly... I dont need to go against lvl 500s when im just barely lvl 20)…”
Counted across 76 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 81.1% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“It's a yes, but sadly dead. It has been almost a year and a half since this game shut down development, but I still think about it at least once a month. I just needed to shout this into the void for no one to hear. Thank you for your time.”
— a player, Steam review · 201 hrs played“Creative vision and game design 10/10, business model and corporate backing 0/10. Truly an amazing game with tons of unique features and abilities, its genuinely a tragedy this game died and I hope some day we see something like it again.”
— a player, Steam review · 222 hrs played“The Devs publicly dropped the game in December 2024, community is entirely dead, yet Tripwire keeps it on the steam store and still advertises it in sales... DO NOT BUY, YOU WILL WASTE YOUR MONEY.”
— a player, Steam review · 33 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-10). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Deceive Inc. September 8th Maintenance Follow-Up
Unfortunately at this time, we're hitting the rollback button. Live should now be back up and running as it was. The beta may be down still, but give us just a little time to sort that out. I'm going
Deceive Inc. September 8th LIVE Downtime (Dedicated Server Rollout)
Hi everyone! We will be doing a pretty large downtime to LIVE. This will be to migrate our current backend to the new private servers backend as well as deploy those builds to all platforms. I don't c
Dedicated Servers Beta: 1.12.02.72378
Late post! We have completed Beta maintenance and the beta is available again. Patch 1.12.02.72378: Some localization integrations for the Server Browser UI (as well as some space savings for longer s
Beta Downtime
We will be entering downtime shortly for the Private Servers beta in order to deploy a patch to it. This patch will look to do the following: Some localization integrations for the Server Browser UI (
Beta Update: 1.12.01.72372
Dedicated Servers Beta Maintenance has completed. The server and client have both been updated to 1.12.01.72372. Make sure to either restart Steam or verify your files to make sure you catch the updat
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Social Deduction · Heist · Battle Royale · Hero Shooter · Extraction Shooter · PvP · PvE · Shooter · First-Person · Female Protagonist · Strategy · Detective (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements · Full controller support |
| Languages | English * , French * , German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 36 |
| Official site | https://deceiveinc.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: OS: Windows 10 64-bit, Windows 11 64-bit Processor: Core i5-6500 or AMD Ryzen 3 3300U Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 or AMD Radeon R7 265 DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 8 GB available space