Letters From a Rainy Day -Oceans and Lace-

Letters From a Rainy Day -Oceans and Lace-

Worth it · Narrative · 2021

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $16.99, a BANGER if it drops to $14.37.

Length
10.1h
Value
$1.68/hr
Reviews
97% positive
It needs 15% off ($14.37) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
10.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
10.8h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.68
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$16.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
97%
1,034 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1.9 GB of storage. Windows only.

Luscious artwork brings the beautiful streets of Kamakura in June to life in this bittersweet sapphic story of a romance that begins with blackmail... This is a yuri adventure game based on the theme of love between girls at a lady's school in Kamakura, Japan.
Description from the Steam store page.

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
Reviews97% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 96% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement65% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.68/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length10 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 320 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $11.89, set in June 2023. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 22 in the 5 years tracked, about 13 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $14.37 BANGER line 18 times.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt (free, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Lake ($19.99, scores 51).

Steam's global achievement data puts 65 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 320 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to September 2026.

The drop-off

94% start to 65% 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

Players

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 15:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Letters From a Rainy Day: Oceans and Lace is a heartfelt yuri visual novel developed by Lily Spinel and published by HUBLOTS and mirai works. Set in the scenic coastal city of Kamakura, the game tells a deeply personal story centered on communication, trust, and emotional growth. Rather than relying on dramatic fantasy elements or high-stakes action, it builds its appeal through carefully written character...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 13hJun 2026Read on Steam
A very well done yuri vn. It follows Mikoto, a popular yet cold upper class student, who receives a blackmail letter instructing her to confess her feelings to Shiori, a quiet reserved younger student who makes crafts for the sewing club. Shiori is shocked as she never expected anyone to confess to her let alone a girl she does not even know. What follows is a very heartwarming yuri story. Finishing it took me about...
DapdudeRecommendedafter 7.2hMay 2026Read on Steam
This is a good yuri visual novel with cute art, well-written characters, and a sweet, emotional story. The pacing is a little bit slow at times, as there are several times where you see a scene from one character's POV, and then immediately get that scene from the other character's POV, complete with lots of repeated dialogue. This game isn't super long to begin with, so the fact that a significant percentage of the...
guthrum06Recommendedafter 4.4hApr 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Letters From a Rainy Day -Oceans and Lace- scores 82/100 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/1637370/letters-from-a-rainy-day-oceans-and-lace
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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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperLily Spinel
PublisherHUBLOTS
GenreNarrative
Released2021
Achievements11