Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $14.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2024. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 31.9h
- Value
- $0.47/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti or AMD Radeon RX 470, 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
Yuma, an amnesiac detective-in-training, and Shinigami, the spirit haunting him, tackle unsolved mysteries.
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
The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in September 2026. It has been discounted 20 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $14.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 59 at list, 62 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kena: Bridge of Spirits ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express ($39.99, scores 46).
Steam's global achievement data puts 40 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 2 of the 707 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
83% start to 40% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
81 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 06:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Honestly? This game is awesome. The story is awesome and MOST of the cast was awesome (100% MY GOAT Halara) but beneath all the story cast and twists? The game struggles with inputs because the devs only ported the game instead of optimizing it for PC or even xbox controller. This game was originally made in Switch and the devs just simply didn't care. So for anyone reading this. Don't get angry at your stuff. Get...
Pretty good detective game, if you liked games like danganronpa you'll definitely like this. My only two gripes is that sometimes the cases can be a little boring and also the fanservice kinda gets annoying(discussing who the murderer is while shinigami is spinning around in a swimsuit)
I've really loved some past Spike Chunsoft games, from Danganronpa to AI Somnium Files, so when I saw the obvious similarities in the product page I was excited to give Rain Code Plus a try. It pains me to say this, because I really like this studio, but this game just didn't do it for me. I generally don't like visual novels, but I do like mystery games. Even though Danganronpa is very text-heavy, those games...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus scores 62/100 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/2903950/master-detective-archives-rain-code-plusReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 2.
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