The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-

The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-

Fair · Strategy · 2025

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 3 of 6 sales

Fair at $59.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hour▼
$1.73/hr
Reviews▼
88% of 8,793
Critics
83 players 5 higher
Genre rank
Top 5% Strategy

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
It needs 2% off ($58.55) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $58.55 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
34.7h
To 100%
164.4h 4.7x the story
Finish
96% reach the ending
Achievements
47

Price and sales

Sales
5 on record
Typical cut
30% off
Steam low
$35.99 April 2026
Sale every
102d last August 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $35.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
113 now
Recent reviews
88% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
93% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

96% start to 96% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 5 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 12 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. On the same math Sultan's Game ($19.99, scores 91) and Death and Taxes ($12.99, scores 72) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-

Steam's global achievement data puts 96 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 171 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 34.7 hours; clearing it takes 164, which is 4.7 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 3 of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 81 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement96% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.73/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds1 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Wow. So after 240 hours and over a year of playing this game, I've finally completed every last ending it has to offer. This was single-handedly the most unique game I've ever played, and I doubt there will ever exist another game like this. They truly swung for the fences, and I think they absolutely knocked it out of the park. Does this game have flaws? Absolutely. Are some routes better than others? Definitely...
Soulstar07Recommendedafter 239h15 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
Whilst it takes time to get started, I found myself very invested and eager to find answers to the story. First off, I think this game is too long, many of the hundred days contain lots of padding conversations that don't serve a purpose towards building characters, progressing or providing hints to the story and work-building. I started to speed through some of these once I noticed the tone saving time on several...
RhinoRecommendedafter 67h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I enjoyed it a lot, i know people complain about it being to long, but its not like you HAVE to see everything, either way, i doubt anything like this will ever happen again.
Milk cartonRecommendedafter 261hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi join forces for the first time to deliver the ULTIMATE adventure game! 15 students are tasked with defending a school from grotesque monsters for 100 days. Can they make it to the end? And will they survive long enough to uncover the truth?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon RX 560, 32 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3014080/the-hundred-line-last-defense-academy
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Reviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+5
Critics83
Players88
Metacritic critics · 8,793 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperToo Kyo Games
PublisherAniplex Inc.
GenreStrategy
Released2025
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements47