Buy a Croquette!

Buy a Croquette!

BANGER · RPG · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

A BANGER, and it costs nothing.

PriceS
Free to play
ReviewsS
99% of 8,820
Genre rank
Top 1% RPG

Time and effort

To 100%
6.4h
Achievements
14

Players and genre

Online
13 now
Recent reviews
98% 30 days
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

81% start to 10% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is the best reviewed of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Enigma of Fear ($29.99, scores 84) and The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 ($3.99, scores 63).

It is still busy. 13 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 7, 22:46 UTC, across 42 days of weekly checks.

Buy now or wait

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
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

March 2012, Nagano. The brave and clever high school girl, Chio Aozora, is facing a major crisis: she doesn’t have enough money to buy a croquette! Navigate through the streets and alleys of Nagano, interact with a variety of characters, solve complex puzzles, collect 380 yen, and buy a croquette!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, As long as the screen can display something, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Buy a Croquette! scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2167960/buy-a-croquette
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

Developer越青
PublisherEternal Dream
GenreRPG
Released2024
Completionist6.4h100%, HowLongToBeat
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements14