TOKYO CHRONOS

TOKYO CHRONOS

Skip · Strategy · 2019

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The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$29.99Skip

On its price record

$22.73Fair

Length
6.5h 12.2h to 100%
Value
$4.61/hr
Reviews
87% of 339 positive
It needs 80% off ($6.14) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $22.73 or less.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

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

Holding it back
Value$4.61/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 197 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

TOKYO CHRONOS is the VR game that has multiple-choice decision points as well as more than one ending. The game takes place in Shibuya, Tokyo, which has only eight people, including you, the protagonist, Kyosuke Sakurai. Why are they there?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 970 (AMD Radeon R9 290), 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

58 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Myst ($20.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Event[0] ($19.99, scores 41).

The drop-off

60% start to 24% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

This game is purely a Visual Novel/ADV game through and through with the added novelty of it being a VR game. If you're a stranger to these type of games, the only gameplay here is read, choose a story path, and more reading. For anyone that doesn't want to read or wanting more gameplay than that, unless you're interested with the premise of the story, I'm afraid that this game will not be to your taste. Treat these...
PastrealityRecommendedafter 14hMay 2024Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
If huge characters and environments break your immersion, try changing the custom scale to about 40% in the advanced video setting in SteamVR. Seriously, the narrative, voice acting, and soundtracks are amazing. It would be a waste not to enjoy them because of the ridiculous scale this game uses by default.
DragonokenRecommendedafter 13hMar 2023Read on Steam
This game will probably bug you if you've played other VR games before. However, if this is the first game you're planning to play in VR, then it might be alright for you. Technically, the game functions well, although the background are low-res. The characters and world objects are all bizarrely scaled. I know there's an unofficial fix for the scaling, but I'm told that the fix brings other problems. Anyway. The...
ph0ne (greatijedi)Not recommendedafter 11hMay 2024Read 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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TOKYO CHRONOS scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1031440/tokyo-chronos
Embed the live badge

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 Oct 2, 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

DeveloperMyDearest Inc.
PublisherSekai Project
GenreStrategy
Released2019
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements23