NightCry
Skip · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 8.2h 13.4h to 100%
- Value
- $3.05/hr
- Reviews
- 59% of 301 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 749 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
NightCry is set on a cruise ship, and you have been invited along for the cruise of a (possibly short) lifetime. While your surroundings are luxurious and the guests are friendly, not everything is as it should be. The guests and the crew start to turn up dead, the victims of some foul murderer.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 31 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 107 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 96 percent. On the same math Fear the Spotlight ($19.99, scores 67) and GYLT ($19.99, scores 63) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about NightCry
Critics scored it 44. Players sit 15 points higher at 59 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
The drop-off
76% start to 35% 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
I watched it since I was kinda curious about in the story, but did not like the game play.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
the worst game, & i like bad games. just bad with no redeeming qualities at all. not even a funny bad, just bad.
NightCry is a survival horror game developed by Nude Maker and published by PLAYISM that tries to revive the spirit of classic point-and-click horror experiences like Clock Tower while bringing them into a modern setting. The game begins aboard a luxurious cruise ship, a setting that at first feels serene and inviting but quickly becomes a death trap once a series of brutal murders take place. From there, the game...
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Cite this score
NightCry scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/427660/nightcryReviews 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.