Nocturnals
Fair · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $5.59, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 30%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 1.1h
- Value
- $5.08/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 30% off today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($5.59)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($4.79)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, At least 4GB VRAM and WebGL support., 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A short, choose your own adventure game about two boys that find each other in a lonely, post-apocalyptic town.
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
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was September 2025. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 12 in the 2 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart. Today's $5.59 at 30 percent off still sits 40 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 51. With it, 56.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 15 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Haven ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Left on Read (free, scores 55).
Of the 421 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 20 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,656 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 22 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 441 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 49 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.1 hours. Doing everything runs 7, 6.5 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
39% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 19:54 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
For the LGBTQ+ community & those who love a good post-apocalyptic vibe, this game was perfect. Short and sweet! I highly recommend for others!! So excited for the next game!!! <2
I love this game so much, gen means so much to me. Cant wait for cactai coast!! Just talking about the game i want to cry, it has a special place in my heart :,)
such a good little story game. very captivating with the sweet & emotional moments throughout. i was rlly invested for my first 2 run throughs & i like that you can replay just to see the different endings.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Nocturnals scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2578910/nocturnalsReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 2.
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