Nurse Love Syndrome

Nurse Love Syndrome

Fair · Narrative · 2019

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
15.4h 30.2h to 100%
Value
$2.60/hr
Reviews
93% of 323 positive
It needs 25% off ($29.92) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $29.92 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement33% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.60/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 214 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Meet cheerful Kaori Sawai, fresh out of nursing school, as she joins Yurigahama Hospital. Surviving a near death experience as a child left her with a desire to become a nurse and "healing hands" that let her relieve pain in patients just by touching them.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 8.1 capable GPU, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 56 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 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 45).

More about Nurse Love Syndrome

Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 214 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.

The drop-off

42% start to 33% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

Kogado Studio Yuri Visual Novel never dissapoint. Kogado Studio please make another Yuri VN, and my soul is yours.
MyGO!!!Recommendedafter 75hJan 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Nurse Love Syndrome is a story-driven visual novel developed by KOGADO STUDIO and published on Steam by KOMODO that blends heartfelt romance with an unusually grounded portrayal of professional life. Rather than relying on exaggerated drama or fantasy elements, the game roots its narrative in the everyday routines, emotional challenges, and quiet triumphs of working in a hospital. You follow Kaori Sawai, a newly...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 9.8hDec 2025Read on Steam
This VN has certainly been a wild ride - despite notable flaws, it was overall an enjoyable experience full of surprises. To start off, the presentation is awesome; the medical-themed UI looks very appealing and the art is beautiful with a soft colorpalette, including a solid variety of CGs. The soundtrack is rather simple, yet also lovely and fitting the ambience. The game manages to create an original sweet &...
Pat ^_^Recommendedafter 32hOct 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Nurse Love Syndrome scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1023690/nurse-love-syndrome
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperKOGADO STUDIO
PublisherKOMODO
GenreNarrative
Released2019
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13