Shanghai Summer
Worth it · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $12.99.
- Length
- 3.9h 9.3h to 100%
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 451 positive
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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
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 23 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 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 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Forgotten City ($4.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Beast Saga ($20.99, scores 38).
More about Shanghai Summer
Steam's global achievement data puts 41 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 3 of the 340 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to July 2026.
Finishing takes 3.9 hours; clearing it takes 9, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
75% start to 41% 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
What players say
Not bad, but if you haven't played it yet get A Space For The Unbound first. This game is like a pale shadow of that one.
2 more reviews
I'm not a visual novel guy, but this game is cool. it gives me feeling of Steins;Gate cus the time loop, but without it being too much. a Hyouka cus highschool and library, and Anohana because of the old friends and u try to save them, or they saves u maybe.
Shanghai Summer is a short, emotional visual novel about life - making peace with past regrets, cherishing what you have in the present, and moving forward into the future. It is a story about finding comfort and inspiration in the little things in life, and it is about realising how everyone has their own problems in life, how no one's life is perfect, and yet how they all try to move forward and live their lives...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shanghai Summer scores 68/100 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/1323830/shanghai-summerReviews 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.