Night Cascades
Worth it · Narrative · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2022.
- Length
- 3.8h 4.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.79/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 226 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
The city is on fire, and the Devil is to blame - or is it? Two women must solve an occult-themed mystery set in an alternate 1980s while unraveling the secrets of their past. Hunt for clues and interrogate suspects in this interactive yuri visual novel.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1280x720, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was July 2026. It has been discounted 45 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 45 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including This Bed We Made ($24.99, scores 54) and Lake ($19.99, scores 51).
The drop-off
61% start to 34% 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
What players say
A cute, short (approx. 3-4 hours) visual novel about two women, Jackie and Diane, teaming up to solve the mystery of series of seemingly occult fires. The story is set in the 1980s - about which I arguably have little knowledge of - but I feel like it added a nice touch to the conversations, troubles, and worries the two had in coming to terms with their past 'entanglement'. We switch POVs every 'chapter' which...
2 more reviews
It's essentially a short kinetic visual novel (2-4 hours for most readers). It's about 50/50 between the romance and the investigation. You switch pov between Jackie and Diane from chapter to chapter. You do have some choices and some things to click on but it's not changing anything about the story. I personally think the story was charming. It takes something that could be cliche on paper and presents it in a way...
This was cute, but the actual game mechanics are very very minimal. Mostly just involves clicking around a scene until you hit the right spot. The story, however, is great, though quite cliche. The two main characters are likeable and have an interesting history together. I enjoyed my time with the game, but there is no replayability and if you are a fast reader like myself, you will be done in under two hours. I...
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Cite this score
Night Cascades scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1743080/night-cascadesReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.