Lost Judgment

Lost Judgment

Worth it · RPG · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $39.99, a BANGER if it drops to $25.19.

Length
24.3h
Value
$1.65/hr
Reviews
94% positive
It needs 37% off ($25.19) to be a BANGER.

Recent reviews trending down: 85% over the last 30 days against 94% all-time.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely between Oct 8 and Oct 21, at about $11.99 (70% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 67 days apart.

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

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

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Last discount ended
36 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
24.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
107.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.65
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$39.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
94%
9,748 reviews, as of Sep 19
Metacritic
84
critic score
Players
750K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 2 GB or AMD Radeon RX 460, 2 GB, 60 GB of storage. Windows only.

In this action-adventure thriller, detective Takayuki Yagami goes undercover to unravel a string of twisted crimes at a high school in Yokohama, Japan. Crack the case and some skulls with brutal combat featuring three unique fighting styles and an arsenal of private eye tricks.
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
Reviews94% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 93% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement53% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Value$1.65/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
DRMDenuvo
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Length24 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds6 of 788 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

August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $11.99. It has been discounted 31 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago. The math puts its BANGER price at $25.19. The record reaches that level 22 times.

On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 ($2.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii ($14.99, scores 71).

The press gave it 84; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts 53 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Players rate it 94 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 85 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 788 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 204 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 24.3 hours. Doing everything runs 107, 4.4 times as long.

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

The drop-off

85% start to 53% 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

220 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 09:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Lost Judgment I previously finished Judgment and never wrote anything about that game, but right now I want to talk about its sequel, Lost Judgment. This sequel really brings some crazy improvements, especially in terms of combat and the incredible amount of activities in the world (honestly I got tired myself because there are just too many activities in it). Story wise, this game takes on a pretty dark and heavy...
HandBrickRecommendedafter 106h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Compared to the first game: 8.0/10 Judgment Was Driven by Its Characters. Lost Judgment Is Driven by Its Plot. Lost Judgment is still a great game. The gameplay, presentation, side content, and even its themes are all good enough to earn it a high score. But after finishing it, I still can't shake one thought: Its biggest problem is that it never feels as much like a story about people as Judgment did . What made...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 64h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Lost Judgment scores 77/100 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/2058190/lost-judgment
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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 19, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+10
Critics
84
Players
94
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 9,748 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperRGG Studio
PublisherSEGA
GenreRPG
Released2022
Achievements56