Night Book
Skip · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 12, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 0.9h 3.4h to 100%
- Value
- $16.66/hr
- Reviews
- 68% of 605 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
Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 11.0 compatible video card, 11 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 49 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 71 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pentiment ($19.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats The Casting of Frank Stone™ ($29.99, scores 6).
More about Night Book
Of the 469 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 253 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 48 percent of everything written about it.
0.9 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.8 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 0.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
71% start to 11% 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
What players say
NOT recommended for a general audience. Strictly for big fans of FMV and horror and it shouldn't be at the top of their list. The game is almost a failure : actors are unequal, writing is average. When you make a choice, some achievement pop up and announce you what is going to happen. At the end of the game, the stats showing you the scenes you've unlocked are absolutely unclear, impossible to understand. The game...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Night Book is a claustrophobic, occult FMV thriller that turns the simple act of working from home into an absolute nightmare. You play as Loralyn, an expectant mother and remote interpreter who accidentally summons an ancient, hungry spirit after being tricked into reading from a cursed book during a late-night video call. The entire game is presented through the lens of computer screens and security feeds...
This is not the best FMV game, but not the worst. It's short, only about an hour per playthrough. If you're looking for good modern examples of FMV games, try The Shape Shifting Detective, Late Shift, The Complex, or the Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker. The acting was fair, the main actress was believable in her reactions, with a few of the others less so. Keep in mind to get the amount of footage needed they...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Night Book scores 12/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1477920/night-bookReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.