BUSTAFELLOWS
Fair · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 13.9h
- Value
- $2.88/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
A new visual novel from the legendary eXtend! Mixing dangerous romance with murder mystery, BUSTAFELLOWS is a steamy noir mystery that will make you shiver but ask for more!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in December 2024. 39 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 33 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 18 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage ($19.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Life is Strange: True Colors ($59.99, scores 47).
Of the 430 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 127 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 13.9 hours; clearing it takes 32, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 13.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 01:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I'm only on episode 3, but wow! I can see why so many people recommend this otome. It's so worth it. The only downside is that the keyboard controls make no sense. I ended up just using my controller to have better experience.
One day you'll come across a game called Bustafellows and you'll laugh. Haha Bust a fellows? What a funny name. Play it. It's a must to bust.
I am not sure why this game's narrative gets so much praise because I don't think it's a particularly well written crime/mystery story nor a particularly good romance VN. The individual character routes (I've only played two of them) are fairly short. Usually I prefer otome games that take time to do world building and allow for things to develop slowly rather than shoving the relationship down your throat at every...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
BUSTAFELLOWS scores 51/100 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/1494470/bustafellowsReviews 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 1.
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