World's End Club

World's End Club

Skip · RPG · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 25, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
11.3h 15.6h to 100%
Value
$1.77/hr
Reviews
70% of 246 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $13.99 (30% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

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

Raising the score
Engagement33% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.77/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews70% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 227 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Twelve kids. 1200 kilometers. One epic journey across Japan! Surround yourself with a cast of charming, quirky characters as you set off on an unforgettable trip!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 11 or 12 compatible, DirectX 11 compatible, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

19 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Iconoclasts ($19.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Dino running from a FURRY: GAMESFORFARM ($2.99, scores 17).

More about World's End Club

Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 227 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to August 2026.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 11.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

92% start to 33% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

Let me start this review by saying that this game is not for everyone out there. Gameplay wise, this game is basically a disaster. I wish they would have spent more time on the visual aspects, because that's pretty rough a lot of the time too (except for the UI, like that's legitimately so good). Back in the late 1500's, you had the globe theatre, where Romeo and Juliet was played. The stage didn't really use many...
SUP3R_ST4RRecommendedafter 37hMay 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Just barely passable game, though coming from these devs I expected something a lot better. The story of World's End Club is an all-ages roadtrip through a destroyed world that rehashes several elements from previous Uchikoshi and Kodaka games. The majority of the cast is simple but carried by one-note gimmicks that may not land for everyone (very Kodaka), while the overarching plot is full of sci-fi mysteries with...
DrowsyMooseRecommendedafter 11hMar 2026Read on Steam
I wanted to like this game, I like platforms and I'm a big fan of the director - Kazutaka Kodaka. Sadly, the game is not for me. It's mostly dialogue, with the story being fed to us by a spoon. When we get to the game play, the level are uninteresting to say the least - even boring. There are also clear sighs that the game is not fully polished, one example being the audio dialogue skipping ahead before finishing if...
HiganbanaSheyning ☆Not recommendedafter 8.8hFeb 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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World's End Club scores 25/100 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/1570020/world-s-end-club
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Reviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIzanagiGames
PublisherIzanagiGames
GenreRPG
Released2021
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements40