BAD END
Fair · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.9h 3.2h to 100%
- Value
- $3.15/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 397 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1280x720, 32-bit colors, Vertex Shader 2.0, Pixel Shader 2.0, 317 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 57 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 75 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Oxenfree ($9.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Amanda the Adventurer 2 ($9.99, scores 54).
More about BAD END
Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
At 1.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
29% start to 29% 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
What players say
Premise A mildly unsettling yet addictive horror-themed mystery experience that can be fully completed in just 2.2 hours. The story revolves around uncovering the truth behind a sudden, mysterious, and untimely death, allegedly caused by a strange game rumored to kill its players if they make the wrong choices and reach a bad ending. Investigation and Decisions The primary objective is to uncover the supernatural...
2 more reviews
okay the plot actually goes HARDDD, they did the villain of the story well even though the main motivation. the game will basically try to kill you, and you need to not makes mistakes in order to reach the one and only good ending in the game (aka the true end). the mc doesn't have a character sprite for some reason which kinda confused me at first but you're playing as a highschooler dude, where the ONLY time...
BAD END is an horror Visual Novel with multiple choices and 14 different endings. I'll start this review by mentioning that the game is still relatively short, but nevertheless a solid 2-3 hours of playtime to get all endings. The artstyle is great, the music is relatively good too (the one track with banging on metallic railings is quite annoying to be honest xD) and the writing is alright. The writing doesn't have...
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Cite this score
BAD END scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/415850/bad-endReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.