Nightshade/百花百狼
Fair · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $34.99. A BANGER at $10.60, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2017 (lowest $17.49, Feb 2025).
- Length
- 9.3h 30.3h to 100%
- Value
- $3.76/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 804 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.60 or less.
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.
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
A romance visual novel game made in collaboration with D3P and Red Entertainment.Character design and illustrations are by the popular illustrator Teita. The romance revolves around Ninjas who have lived through the Sengoku Period. This game has published in 2016 as PS Vita in Japan.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Resolution:1280x720以上, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
65 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $10.60, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition ($29.99, scores 56) and Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered ($39.99, scores 45).
More about Nightshade/百花百狼
Steam's global achievement data puts 30 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 325 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 9.3 hours; clearing it takes 30, which is 3.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
44% start to 30% 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
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 03:52 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
great otome! a reminder to not waste all of my money in gacha games when there are completed and incredible stories like these where I can put those coins at better use lol. Gekkamaru best boy
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game was really well written, and I really enjoyed playing it. I played it on the steam deck, the controls were pretty straightforward, and not too hard to figure out. I recommend this game because it got me so invested, and some of the routes made me emotional, and others were very interesting or lovely. I love a guide when it comes to visual novels, and there is a pretty decent one.
I'm going to be honest here. The story isn't bad. Every storyline is interesting and overall unique to each character. There's occasional overlap, but that's typical and expected in any otome, especially because the underlying base of the story has to be the same to work. I played this kind of blind. I bought it during a sale when it was, I think, half off? With minimal read through on what the story was about via a...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Nightshade/百花百狼 scores 63/100 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/512180/nightshadeReviews 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.