Narcissu 10th Anniversary Anthology Project
BANGER · Short indie · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99.
- Length
- 10.4h 18.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.29/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 782 positive
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Buy now or wait
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.
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About the game
"Life is like a waiting room, except people don't leave in the order they enter." Narcissu is a thought provoking visual novel series about terminal illness, living, dying, and the relationship between those leaving and those left behind. There are no miracles, no heroes, no villains in this story.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 77 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 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 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, What Comes After ($4.99, scores 67) and Röki ($19.99, scores 64), are both worse buys on this math.
$12.68 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Narcissu 10th Anniversary Anthology Project
This site sampled 311 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 174 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
This is pretty much just a KEY VN focused on how people deal with death. Instead of students, you usually get a variety of cute anime girls who come down with serious illnesses. Sounds a bit cliched, but it actually kind of worked for me. The music is great and helps a lot with this. I think that's because the writing can tap into something very scary for most of us - what happens when we're about to die? How do we...
2 more reviews
渴望、热切、奋斗，如果有一天能得到回报，那就很好…… 但如果愿望没有实现，我该怎么办？ 那时候，我说'哦，这不可能'然后笑出来？我没那么坚强…… 我……我能做的，就是从一开始就放弃。什么都不奢望…… 最后…… 对于那些留下来的人……请为他们微笑……
straight peak. words cannot describe how great of a visual novel this is. It will bring a yet bittersweet, but motivating feeling to you. It will change your mindset, no matter what you are going through it is a game that is meant to stay on your mind, and bring some hope. Absolutely phenonmenal soundtrack, and pacing. Even as a novice in these novels, if you are just starting out, I highly reccomeend this. And no...
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Cite this score
Narcissu 10th Anniversary Anthology Project scores 94/100 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/426690/narcissu-10th-anniversary-anthology-projectReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.