Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception
Worth it · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99, a BANGER if it drops to $28.00.
- Length
- 30.6h
- Value
- $1.31/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
You awaken in a field of snow with no memory of even your name. The local monstrosities nearly devour you before you meet your rescuer, a beautiful girl named Kuon—who has animal ears and a tail. She names you Haku⸺ The Japanese hit tactics-RPG visual novel series returns to PC at last!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was March 2022. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 47 in the 7 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $28.00 BANGER line 43 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. The nearest things to it, Battle Brothers ($29.99, scores 71) and Dragon Cliff ($9.99, scores 77), are both worse buys on this math.
Steam's global achievement data puts 42 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 382 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
74% start to 42% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 03:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The game starts out incredibly slowly with little to no gameplay and mostly slice of life elements. That was quite the bummer and I felt it did drag on for too long and did too little. But once the story actually got going, it got really interesting. And the ending was just fantastic, especially as setup for the sequel. The combat segments were a bit weird. While I did manage to clear all stages immediately and...
Just want to preface that I already platinum trophie'd this game on PSVita a couple years back so I already have a positive bias towards this game before buying it again on Steam. I must say that playing it again on PC feels like meeting old friends. So I want to start off this review with the PC/Steam version of this game. I think Aquaplus dropped ball the here by locking the framerate to 30fps. This is...
Less harem or even just plain romance than I was expecting. That's really neither good nor bad for me, but from what I was seeing online, I was expecting to be drowning on both. I found the main story gripping, and the slice of life events quite funny--for the most part. U&S are a rather tiresome pair. The battles are fairly easy, but there's some subtle strategy involved that isn't present in the early game, which...
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Cite this score
Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1149550/utawarerumono-mask-of-deceptionReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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