Return to Shironagasu Island
BANGER · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 6.7h
- Value
- $0.74/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 128MB, 799 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A mystery adventure game and visual novel set on solitary Shironagasu Island. Discover its secrets, solve its mysteries, and escape from the ominous island!
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
The value story
June 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 55 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cube Escape: Paradox (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 ($8.99, scores 70).
The math says it holds its tier up to $7.21, and you are being asked for $4.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 57 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 400 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
59% start to 57% 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
7 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 23:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Absolutely fantastic game. Story, voices and art pit so perfectly together. It was pretty dark but had a very well made ending. At some points I felt it went on too fast, especially at the end of chapter 5 going into chapter 6 and the ending, but it wasn't an issue for me. I also wish there would've been more servants, and I expected to see and hear of more people that were abducted and experimented on. I did also...
Return to Shironagasu Island is a special kind of visual novel. It might not have the best art or music and the first impression is a bit mixed, but it quickly turns all of that around with good writing and insanely twisted story. For the first 5 hours I had no idea what to even expect, because everything was so vague. "Is it a death game? Or is it a detective novel?". Turns out, it's neither. It starts off as a...
It's a great indie VN, especially for the price. There are some rough parts, but overall I really enjoyed the story music and characters. If you crave for detective plot and uncovering convoluted mysteries the game won't deliver, but otherwise - good game. Looking forward to play the next game when it releases. Don`t look at the time played, I used the game as Japanese language learning material. If you want to do...
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Cite this score
Return to Shironagasu Island scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1156990/return-to-shironagasu-islandReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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