Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Worth it · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $19.20.
- Length
- 12.1h
- Value
- $2.48/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($14.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 67% ($9.89)
- Last discount ended
- 9 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel UHD Graphics 630 / Radeon Vega 8 Graphics, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the classic puzzle-solving mystery adventure directed by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, is back! This long-awaited HD remaster features upgraded visuals and sound and new gallery content.
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
It has never been cheaper than $9.89. That was November 2025. It has been discounted 26 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago. It becomes a BANGER at $19.20, a level the record has reached 17 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Puzzle Agent ($4.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express ($39.99, scores 46).
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 2 of the 462 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 277 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 12.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
83% start to 26% 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
18 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 23:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Very creative game with interesting mechanics. Great story and characters. Highly recommend.
Fantastic puzzle adventure game. Greatly remastered/made to HD from DS game) 100% easy, pretty much play the game and finish missed once with chapter select.
Shu Takumi's writing is just immaculate. No mather the game, the original Ace Attorney trilogy or Ghost Trick. After playing Ace Attorney and loving it, I felt like I wanted to try something new, but from an Author I could trust. Not just that, the game is also very short, about 15 hours, which for me is a huge plus. You can't get overwhelmed by it. The game feels really different compared to anything I've played...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective scores 76/100 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/1967430/ghost-trick-phantom-detectiveReviews 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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