The Shell Part II: Purgatorio
BANGER · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 30.3h 48.3h to 100%
- Value
- $0.82/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 698 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Detective Reiji Tokisaka is back to face down a mystery that spans decades, if not centuries. With the aftermath of his last case weighing on his soul and a long-silent cult resurgent, can he solve the crime—or will it become his curse?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 25 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, This Bed We Made ($24.99, scores 54) and The Case of the Golden Idol ($17.99, scores 72), are both worse buys on this math.
$27.19 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about The Shell Part II: Purgatorio
None of the 329 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026.
Players
- Players online
- 18 when we last checked, on Sep 30, 13:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
omg i hate this series after my goat tojiko died nothing good has ever happened since. This whole thing is just depressing.
2 more reviews
Затерпел первую треть игры, но ожидаемо это с лихвой окупилось. Не могу сказать лучше это или хуже первой части, это просто продолжение истории, но в любом случае вайб ощущается другой, хоть концовка как и в первой части убивает ментальное состояние.
That was so much better than Kara no Shoujo/The Shell Part 1, the story was much more intricate and everything weaved together so nicely. The start felt slow but it makes way more sense when it jumps back to Reiji's POV, without spoiling anything. Easily one of the best VNs I've read. Also still the darkest VN I've read, so much so it makes it hard to smile at the happy parts yk. You'll need a guide to have any...
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Cite this score
The Shell Part II: Purgatorio scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2712550/the-shell-part-ii-purgatorioReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.