Judgment
Worth it · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99, a BANGER if it drops to $25.54.
- Length
- 27.7h
- Value
- $1.44/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 84% over the last 30 days against 94% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 2 GB or AMD Radeon RX 460, 2 GB, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
Fight for the truth and uncover the twisted crime running deep beneath the surface of Tokyo. In this legal thriller , the balance between justice and mercy teeters on the edge.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 32 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $25.54 BANGER line 28 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition ($19.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii ($59.99, scores 51).
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On a 27.7-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Players rate it 94 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 84 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 395 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
27.7 hours to finish it, 99 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
92% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 27.7-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
202 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Normal playthrough experience: 9.2/10 100% completion experience: 3/10 A quick note on 100% completion If you're mainly here for the main story, side cases, and Friend Events, Judgment is still a 9.2/10 for me. I genuinely love its story, characters, and the sense of immersion that Kamurocho provides. However, if you're a completionist like me and want to unlock every Steam achievement, my score for the 100%...
Magnificent! Mysterious & darkening! A deep dive into a "Yakuza" alternative from the perspective of a detective. Will the law prevail ? Take the journey and you shall find out an extraordinary experience.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Judgment scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2058180/judgmentThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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