Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town
BANGER · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2024.
- Length
- 13.4h
- Value
- $1.12/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($20.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($14.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Shin chan starts a mysterious daily routine, traveling between two worlds: the Village in Akita and Coal 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
May 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. It has been discounted 10 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 12 weeks between sales. Today's $14.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 72 at list, 85 today.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Escape Simulator ($19.99, scores 69) and Mr. Prepper ($19.99, scores 51), are both worse buys on this math.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 13.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 336 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
68% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
P E A K I have been craving a really nice cozy game for a while and nothing has quite scratched the itch like this game. The music is great, the art is stunning and the story was also nice. Of course it's nothing mind-blowing but it's perfect to make those hot summer days a bit more bearable.
This game is oozing with character, really cute and cozy. The story is engaging enough and doesn't overstay it's welcome. It does a great job conveying the humor of shin chan.
Shin-Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is, on paper, the sequel to Millennium Kitchen's Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation. It's definitely a similar type of game, the two biggest differences being a) you have two smaller locations instead of one big location, and b) it's a lot more linear and story-focused - while M&tP uses a timeloop spin on the tried and true Millennium Kitchen "time-limited summer...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2699820/shin-chan-shiro-and-the-coal-townReviews 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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