Noctuary
Worth it · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $18.84.
- Length
- 17.5h
- Value
- $1.71/hr
- Reviews
- 94% 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
- 40% ($17.99)
- Last discount ended
- 190 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 / AMD Radeon RX 550, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
Two young illuminators, Fancia and Alina, start their adventure in the bright and fascinating Inlixaland... ...in pursuit of becoming trustworthy "The Arborangers."
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
November 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $17.99. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 23 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 27 weeks ago. Past sales have already crossed the $18.84 BANGER line 16 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Impostor Factory ($9.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Bloomtown: A Different Story ($9.99, scores 70).
Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 439 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 178 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 17.5 hours; clearing it takes 40, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
93% start to 28% 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
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 17:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Noctuary is a product that blends Visual novel with occasional battle stages. Managed to complete it in 30 hours while doing all side missions (without alternative endings and without DLC stories) so it has length that allows for multiple plots to unfold while not being too tiring. Story The story starts slow which might turn off some people but later action starts to progress faster, reaching it's full potential...
A great game with a lot of plot twists that are executed really well, along with many side characters who each get their own story. It is mostly a visual novel with some gameplay, the gameplay is fine but becomes repetitive fairly quickly. The only real criticism is the translation, which is understandable but clearly not done by a native English speaker, as many sentences have an unusual structure. However, the...
Great visuals and great music. However the story is IMO chaotic and superficial. And most of the gameplay is indeed reading story. I gave this story many chances, but my eye-rolling never stopped.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Noctuary 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/2143680/noctuaryReviews 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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