The Red Pearls Of Borneo
Worth it · Narrative · 2026
The verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it, and it costs nothing.
- Length
- 4h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics (Intel HD 4000 or equivalent), 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.
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
- Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
The value story
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft (free, scores 77) and Cloud Climber (free, scores 77) both come in lower.
137 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 29, 04:47 UTC.
The drop-off
86% start to 20% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
137 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 04:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Red Pearls Of Borneo scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 4,501 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4488860/the-red-pearls-of-borneoReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26.
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