Fading Afternoon
Skip · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$15.47Fair
- Length
- 5.5h
- Value
- $3.63/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($9.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 60% ($7.99)
- Last discount ended
- 31 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.
Seiji Maruyama is a middle-aged yakuza recently released from prison. Known as "Gozuki" (one of the demon generals from Buddhist mythology) he is the power that his oyabun counts on. But there is one thing his aniki is not taking into account: Maruyama is getting old.
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
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $7.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 35 in the 3 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dex ($19.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Crea ($14.99, scores 30).
Steam's global achievement data puts 31 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 485 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 159 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 5.5 hours; clearing it takes 19, which is 3.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
68% start to 31% finishSteam 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
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 09:52 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
For such a small game it has a crazy amount of immersion built into it with what is capable. This is just more than a beat 'em up, I plan to put more time into it and enjoy it even more but I will be returning to this developers other projects as they release!
It is a great addictive gang/crime drama experience. It is filled with rival gangs turf battles. Numerous options and decisions and outcomes to experience. Managing time is important. Deciding on when or where to attack, who to talk to are all part of the experience. I read up as much as I could online to find all the secrets. Getting up to shave has never been so important in gaming.
Game gives you no idea when to complete objectives, and if you go to a location 1 time, you cant go back that day and fail. Complete piece of crap.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Fading Afternoon scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1687000/fading-afternoonReviews 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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