UsoNatsu ~The Summer Romance Bloomed From A Lie~

UsoNatsu ~The Summer Romance Bloomed From A Lie~

Fair · Narrative · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
12.5h 13.5h to 100%
Value
$2.00/hr
Reviews
92% of 448 positive
It needs 20% off ($20.05) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $20.05 or less.

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

Raising the score
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$2.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 333 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

This is a story about finding love to overwrite the feelings for the one they held dearest. A girls love visual novel about summer, love and adolescence.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 750 and above, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

26 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Life is Strange: True Colors ($17.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered ($39.99, scores 45).

More about UsoNatsu ~The Summer Romance Bloomed From A Lie~

Of the 333 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026.

The drop-off

95% start to 23% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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
2 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 16:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Very sweet game with a lot of emotional drama. I feel like I just went through a rollercoaster. Maybe some lack of communication but ultimately with the story some of the lack of communication made sense to me. It's one of those stories that is so well written that I hope there's a spinoff where you can learn more about the side characters. Art is beautiful with live2d models and there's a surprising amount of...
ZyhmRecommendedafter 50hFeb 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Absolute cinema. I think if you want to get the best experience from this, you should listen to the prequel voice drama first. It definitely enhanced my experience. Justice for Riku pls
jaeiydenRecommendedafter 19h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Such a sweet and beautifully crafted visual novel, everything about it is just very pretty lol. The reason this even caught my attention was the art, and it's indeed gorgeous all along - the artstyle is outstanding and high in detail, and provides the CGs and characters with plenty of liveliness and emotion. Especially the animated character models are very cute and expressive. The soundtrack and atmosphere are...
Pat ^_^Recommendedafter 13hApr 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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UsoNatsu ~The Summer Romance Bloomed From A Lie~ scores 64/100 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/1575980/usonatsu-the-summer-romance-bloomed-from-a-lie
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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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperLYCORIS
PublisherSekai Project
GenreNarrative
Released2023
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements21