Dōkyūsei: Bangin' Summer
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $9.49.
- Length
- 11.1h
- Value
- $1.80/hr
- Reviews
- 93% 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
- 60% ($7.99)
- Last discount ended
- 8 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256MB VRAM, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Dōkyūsei is a seminal classic of the dating sim genre that first blew Japan's mind in 1992. This updated remake adds HD art, optional modern features, and for the first time ever, a global release.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was December 2023. It has been discounted 43 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 8 days ago. It becomes a BANGER at $9.49, a level the record has reached 28 times.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Finding Paradise ($9.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010) ($5.99, scores 63).
6 of the 209 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 283 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
11.1 hours to finish it, 24 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 19:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
it called "Doukyusei? because first time player talk with heroin was during class and this romance visual novel with the based heroin Mai and player . that was how love story first began and rhat why Mai is mascot " Doukyusei"
Knowing how influential this game was on Japanese Dating simulators, I'm excited I finally got around to playing this! I knew all the content warnings going in and what to expect, and even then it was a struggle to get through the opening scenes and all of the Bro Humor and anime oogling. I thought I would try to play as close to the original as I could, aka walk around to find all of the events naturally, but I do...
Doukyuusei: Bangin' Summer is a remake of one of the most influential dating sims in the visual novel genre, originally released by Elf in the early 1990s. Now modernized and localized by Shiravune, this version updates the visuals and interface while remaining largely faithful to the original structure and spirit. The premise is simple yet effective: you play as a high school student, Takurou, who has just wrapped...
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Cite this score
Dōkyūsei: Bangin' Summer scores 72/100 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/1689910/d-ky-sei-bangin-summerReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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