CHAOS;HEAD NOAH

CHAOS;HEAD NOAH

Worth it · Narrative · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $12.49, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 50%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.

Length
28.3h
Value
$0.44/hr
Reviews
88% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
−50%78 is the sale score. Normallyat full price.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Typical seasonal cut
50% ($12.49)
Deepest seasonal cut
80% ($4.99)

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
28.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
45.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.44
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$12.49
as of Oct 1
Reviews
88%
2,105 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics Series (With 1GB memory allocation), 17 GB of storage. Windows only.

CHAOS;HEAD NOAH is now available on Steam!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.44/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $0.88/hr
Engagement34% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length28 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 533 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

July 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 32 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $12.49 at 50 percent off still sits 150 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.

At full price it scores 76. The current cut is what makes it a 78.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kindergarten ($4.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Gray Dawn ($19.99, scores 46).

Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 533 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 133 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.

The drop-off

78% start to 34% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam 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

50 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 20:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

CHAOS;HEAD NOAH is, from my understanding, the first game to follow when getting into the Science Adventure series, the one that "Steins;Gate" forms part of. This former title being one of a big name and following, I was always curious about it and bought the entire series bundle when on sale, and finally decided to start checking them out. As per a fan guide, Chaos Head should be tackled first, and so, I did. I...
kirboRecommendedafter 71h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam
very good. go in with an open mind or else you won't really enjoy it. also pls play with CoZ patch.
KingFatFishRecommendedafter 78h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Great game. I would recommend to murder mystery fans as long as they're familiar with otaku culture. Protagonist is an absolute cringelord but a great character. Very much enjoyed him.
Mistress of ManiaRecommendedafter 69h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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CHAOS;HEAD NOAH scores 78/100 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/1961950/chaos-head-noah
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Reviews 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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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMAGES. Inc.
PublisherSpike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
GenreNarrative
Released2022
Achievements34