The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story
Fair · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R7 240 / NVIDIA GeForce GT 730, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Unravel the mysteries of death, and find the answers to life.A unique Mystery-Adventure Game:The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was June 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 28 in the 5 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, This Bed We Made ($24.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Twin Mirror ($29.99, scores 31).
2 of the 516 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to September 2026.
The drop-off
81% start to 14% 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
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 21:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Refunded. Drab storytelling, a disinteresting narrative, and woeful mechanics. You'll often come up with more inventive solutions to these whodunnit scenarios than the writers did, leaving a bitter taste in the mouth when the Deus Ex Machina occurs.
Honestly out of all the Asian FMV's that I played so far? this is the weakest The story seems to drag out far too long for its own good, and for some reason square enix though it was a good idea to put the behind the scenes video as paid DLC which is just.... bruh... its a shame because I did want to see the behind the scenes but I'm not paying like 5.99 just to see it. I give it a 5/10 I still enjoyed the story but...
The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story is a live-action mystery adventure game developed by h.a.n.d. and published by Square Enix. The game blends interactive storytelling with full-motion video. Players investigate a series of mysterious deaths that occur over a century within the Shijima family. The protagonist, Haruka Kagami, is a novelist who helps uncover the truth behind the recurring murders using logic and...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story scores 52/100 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/1612780/the-centennial-case-a-shijima-storyReviews 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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