Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $13.99, a BANGER if it drops to $9.82.
- Length
- 4.8h
- Value
- $2.91/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Love-suspense AVG with the theme of "The Peach Blossom Spring". The equinox flowers, bloom for one thousand years and wither for one thousand years. Eternal paradise. Do you choose to stay here, escape here, or bury everything here?
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.17, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 47 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 45 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. The math puts its BANGER price at $9.82. The record reaches that level 42 times.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Friendly Fire (free, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Adventure Escape Mysteries (free, scores 63).
Of the 594 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 396 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.8 hours; clearing it takes 10, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
91% start to 29% 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
1 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 00:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The central theme of the story is impressive, and some of the subplots are a bit difficult to follow, but they are all for the sake of the true ending. Also, the DLC explains a character's mental state through Peach Blossom Spring, and should be viewed as another story, yet it's also good! P.S. I were playing the game in Chinese language.
A very sad and beautiful story, even though quite short, I highly recommend it to any VN fans. As you might have seen in other reviews, the English translation is quite... lacking... but I genuinely believe that it does not substract from the impact of the story at all. When it comes to the "gameplay" aspect of it, there are a few main routes that stem from one single meaningful choice, each with a few unique...
An enjoyable little chinese Visual Novel - fairly short, but the worth its price. It reminded me a little of Raging Loop while playing it, although I feel like it's a bit of a shame that every route basically give you almost full information, making the mystery vanish very early on - this meant aside from a few "oh I wonder why this character acted like that", most of the routes you'll complete for a bit of...
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Cite this score
Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1506980/lay-a-beauty-to-rest-the-darkness-peach-blossom-springReviews 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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