Antioch: Scarlet Bay
Skip · Multiplayer · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 5.4h
- Value
- $0.92/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 266 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 378 days ago.
- 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
Antioch: Scarlet Bay is an online cooperative narrative adventure. Play as two detectives working together to solve a murder in the shadowy city of Antioch. Wander in a city filled with characters with their own agendas and attitudes, all your decisions change the story and lead to multi endings.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 16 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 54 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure ($15.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Nobody Wants to Die ($24.99, scores 43).
More about Antioch: Scarlet Bay
This site sampled 220 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to July 2026.
The drop-off
86% start to <1% 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
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 20:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
So, my friend and I did a playthrough of this game today. While there were some negative aspects to it, I would say that overall, we had a good time. I'll start with the negative aspects. The English translation is....mediocre at best. A lot of the times, the characters don't feel like they're talking to each other, and are just spouting nonsense. There's also a lot of spelling errors (like spelling "traffic" as...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Brilliant visual novel if played through with a friend, and you both get into your characters, the game oozes character and style, it leans very heavily into it's tropes, the old grizzled detective, on one last case before retirement, and the rookie, naive detective dropped into the seedy underbelly of the city filled with potential corruption. The asking price for the game is worth it even for a single play trough...
Visual novel that has an interesting co-op mechanic, but man the writing is just terrible. I could deal with the poor translation, spelling, typos, and grammar, but the racism, misogyny, and ableism are dealbreakers. Not worth it.
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Cite this score
Antioch: Scarlet Bay scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1919140/antioch-scarlet-bayReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.