CLANNAD Side Stories
Fair · Short indie · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.5h 6.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.08/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 415 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.68 or less.
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
Delve further into the world of CLANNAD and experience the stories beyond the original visual novel adventure. Known as CLANNAD Hikari Mimamoru Sakamichi de in Japan, This Steam version features high resolution assets and is translated into English for the very first time.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1280x960, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
65 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 15 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Donut County ($3.24, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Broken Age ($14.99, scores 42).
More about CLANNAD Side Stories
None of the 234 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 148 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
At 6.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 30, 04:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A useless experience. The side stories themselves are fine, although they greatly vary in quality. The issue is that the stories themselves are just a bunch of videos. The far superior experience is watching the videos elsewhere at twice the speed.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
I'm only 30 minutes in, but I HAVE to leave a review because of how many things this VN gets wrong. Especially after how fantastic the original VN was. I have 3 major problems with this game as a VN: 1. There is absolutely nothing to distinguish any of the dialogue. No varied fonts, no bold or italicizing, not even Quotations Marks to separate what's being spoken. So narration, inner thoughts, and dialogue are all...
The stories themselves are fine (Each ranging in the 20-25 minute range), but the main problem is the game is one massive video. You can't save the game, (You have a chapter select feature) and you can't control the pace of the game and you don't have a backlog to reread text. Watching the short stories on Youtube is a superior experience since you scrub through the video and reread text. Unless you really want to...
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Cite this score
CLANNAD Side Stories scores 50/100 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/420100/clannad-side-storiesReviews 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.