Yomawari: Lost in the Dark

Yomawari: Lost in the Dark

Skip · Strategy · 2022

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$39.99Skip

On its price record

$37.42Fair

Length
12.6h 19.2h to 100%
Value
$3.17/hr
Reviews
87% of 375 positive
It needs 74% off ($10.26) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $37.42 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Holding it back
Value$3.17/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 337 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

About the game

Another chapter of the atmospheric horror series has emerged from the shadows! Eerie sound design and shadowy environments set the stage for gruesome and terrifying ghosts never seen before in the series.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics Family(HD 4000), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

24 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 18 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Word Game ($34.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Stray Path ($14.99, scores 34).

More about Yomawari: Lost in the Dark

Of the 337 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026.

The drop-off

82% start to 14% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

[◉°] Even though this is a threequel, it remains charming, especially for those who enjoy searching for mysticism in everyday places that change with the onset of darkness. Pleasant characters, almost complete freedom, just you, a flashlight, and the nighttime ambient. It's sweet, scary, sad, and captivating. Unfortunately, the increase in scale hasn't done the game any favors. Now it can feel more repetitive and...
❥ RougeOfLoveRecommendedafter 21hNov 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
there's something oddly delightful about walking alone at night in a game with such a cute,childlike art style.for me at least,cute visuals + a quiet night stroll = pure enjoyment,even if others might call it dull or boring. perhaps most people dont need a game to teach them its okay to walk alone at night and find it beautiful. but i did and it was there.
εïзRecommendedafter 20hNov 2025Read on Steam
I didn't like it as much as the 2nd game but it was still a nice time. I don't really agree with the direction to make progression more free but its still a cute game.
SkullfaceRecommendedafter 12hOct 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Yomawari: Lost in the Dark scores 49/100 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/1998330/yomawari-lost-in-the-dark
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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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperNippon Ichi Software, Inc.
PublisherNIS America, Inc.
GenreStrategy
Released2022
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements24