Murders on the Yangtze River
BANGER · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 14.8h
- Value
- $1.01/hr
- Reviews
- 97% 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
- 35% ($9.74)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($8.99)
- Last discount ended
- 6 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel GMA 950, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.
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
The lowest price on record is $8.99, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 24 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Draugen ($19.99, scores 29) and Contradiction: Spot The Liar ($12.99, scores 68), are both worse buys on this math.
$23.70 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $14.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 50 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 791 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,618 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 447 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
91% start to 50% 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
91 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 16:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I really enjoyed this game from start to finish. Amazing art all the way through. I love the story, the plot twists - very engaging! I don't know why this game is underrated. Highly recommended!
!!! LOVEEEE Murders on the Yangtze River was my very first step into the detective genre, and it sets the bar incredibly high. I was worried I might get stuck, but everything was perfectly accessible from start to finish. The narrative is brilliant, grounding its twists in real history and science. What really stole my heart, though, was the cast. They feel so authentic that you can't help but sympathize with them...
As an Ace Attorney fan, I appreciate how this game has its own distinctive take on the genre. As a history buff, I really enjoyed how the game creatively incorporated elements of Chinese history and culture into the various cases. The storyline was not only engrossing and suspenseful, but also enabled me to learn numerous interesting historical facts about the late Qing Dynasty. Similar to Ace Attorney, the cast is...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Murders on the Yangtze River scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1746030/murders-on-the-yangtze-riverReviews 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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