Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
BANGER · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $29.99.
- Length
- 33.3h
- Value
- $0.90/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0 compatible GPU with at least 1GB of VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in January 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 61 in the 10 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance ($9.99, scores 65) and Crimson Snow (2023) ($6.99, scores 75).
$32.91 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $29.99.
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. Of the 637 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 228 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
50% 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
Players
108 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 14:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
aside from being mathematically impaired this is one of top of the top pieces in gaming history for escape room junkies 10/10
Such a great mystery visual novel. It completely exceeded my expectations. At first I thought this was going to be a simple killing mystery visual novel, but I had so much fun with it and it also had a really good story. I really liked 999. The characters were all really interesting, the puzzles were amazing and the mystery was also really well done. I could barely stop making theories about how the game was going...
One of the most intriguing, plot heavy games. This convenient title, packs the first two games in the Zero Escape saga, the third and last one is a separate entry. Since this compilation add new features to the original GBA releases, let's talk first about the games and then we'll dwell with the updates. The first game is 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors. Probably the best game in the saga and one of the most interesting...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/477740/zero-escape-the-nonary-gamesReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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