Matsuro Palette
Worth it · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.08.
- Length
- 2.2h 3.5h to 100%
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 99% of 544 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.08 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
About the game
Survive seven days with a cursed painting. Rely on notes from past victims and manage to successfully paint her portrait. But be careful not to upset her, or you'll quickly find yourself dead! An assortment of terminal tableaus awaits you. Will you be the one to finally finish her?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4GB VRAM, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 27 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.08. The record reaches that level 15 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Children of Silentown: Prologue (free, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats The Excavation of Hob's Barrow ($14.99, scores 67).
More about Matsuro Palette
None of the 305 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
73% start to 31% rarestNo 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
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 29, 16:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
An absolute masterpiece. On the surface, this is a horror game about a cursed painting which kills people. Once you plumb it's deaths however, an absolute tragedy which will scar your soul in a beautiful way unfolds. If you at all ascribe a "soul" to inanimate objects and cherish them, this will hit you hard when you achieve the memory ending. In the credits, you see what happens and it's just so heartbreaking and...
2 more reviews
Played this years ago on mobile and didn't finish it the first time since I kept dying lol. So I'm really glad to have found it again, because I finally made it as far as learning the girl's backstory and those of the painting's previous victims. The story is definitely the best part of this game, with the sound design and art creating a unique vibe, and though I'm less interested in getting all the "death"...
Personally, I love story games so much, especially when they let you interact and try to connect things together. Even though I still have issues with my English language, so it is a hard time for me to understand, the story was good. Even the puzzles and gameplay, the art is just great and changed my preview about it. Even though it's short, it was an awesome experience. I highly recommend it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Matsuro Palette scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1321120/matsuro-paletteReviews 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.