The Shell Part I: Inferno
Worth it · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 17.4h
- Value
- $1.15/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Buy now or wait
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
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($9.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 60% ($7.99)
- Last discount ended
- 8 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
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
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $6.99. It has been discounted 32 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 8 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Toilet Chronicles ($0.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Sherlock Holmes The Awakened ($39.99, scores 42).
Of the 418 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 163 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Players
27 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 14:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
i will forevr keep searching for a vn that made me feel like this it left me empty but i wld read it all over again such a bittersweet feeling ;ㅅ; id do anything to experience this for the first time again i love u kuchiki toko 𖹭
Всех убили, всех изуродовали, и оставили меня с этим один на один, вот это действительно психологический хоррор. Разраб называет это True End. Так называемая вкуснятина!
played it, beat it, loved it. jolly good show! i would NOT recommend to ANYONE. I love my bug-obsessed sister ❤️ Reiji is THE GOAT
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Shell Part I: Inferno scores 73/100 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/2258770/the-shell-part-i-infernoReviews 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 1.
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