When The Night Comes
Fair · Short indie · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.4h 26.6h to 100%
- Value
- $2.41/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 332 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.97 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
When The Night Comes is a queer, narrative-driven, supernatural visual novel.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX or OpenGL compatible card, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $6.49. That was April 2025. It has been discounted 29 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 8 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Life is Strange Remastered ($39.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Lost Records: Bloom & Rage ($21.99, scores 58).
More about When The Night Comes
This site sampled 287 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026.
The main story runs 5.4 hours. Doing everything runs 27, 4.9 times as long.
At 5.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
80% start to 12% 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
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 14:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I have to admit, I wasn't expecting much. The only love interest I was really interested in at first was Alkar, but when I played his route I found myself really liking the others, too. The main story, if you ignore the romance, is quite interesting and though it's only really interesting once or twice, it can be played without romancing anyone and still be interesting. Now, despite not being convinced about the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Newer to the visual novel genre, but this is one of my favorite queer inclusive games. Like many games the story has a fairly easy to spot villain by the time you're part way through, but I did not mind due to how adorable and fun most all the cast was to engage. The voice acting was also top notch. Thus far I have only played once romancing one character, but may pick it back up again to romance others despite...
This is one of those games that I would rate "Meh, It depends" because there's so many things wrong with it, but there's just enough good about it to where I still enjoyed the game to spend 24 hours playing it (and this is just one playthrough too, which i did improperly & plan on trying to go back and redo some choices to hopefully get a more pleasant ending. So at the very least, you get plenty of things to read...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
When The Night Comes scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1400870/when-the-night-comesReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.