As Dusk Falls
Fair · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.7h
- Value
- $4.48/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory. Windows only.
Explore the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong, the character's lives depend on the choices you make.
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
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was November 2023. Its cuts run 67 percent off as a rule. There have been 34 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tell Me Why (free, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats The Casting of Frank Stone™ ($29.99, scores 6).
Of the 654 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 221 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
6.7 hours to finish it, 14 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
76% start to 6% 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
7 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 04:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
As a huge fan of the genre, I would easily put it in its top tier - along with the likes of The Quarry and Detroit: Become Human. More than decent replayability too, thanks to its multitude of branching paths with interesting outcomes. Strong recommendation for anyone interested in narrative-first games.
Jesus, this is bad. Some of the worst writing I've ever seen in a game. Immediately after finishing it, the first thing I did was try to find a picture of the dev team, expecting to see an endless wave of blue haired culture warriors. Instead, I found a behind the scenes video where, 14 seconds in, they start talking about the diversity of their team. "We're writing for as many people as possible, to be as inclusive...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
As Dusk Falls scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1341820/as-dusk-fallsReviews 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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