Lost in Secular Love

Lost in Secular Love

Fair · Strategy · 2016

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.2h 8.2h to 100%
Value
$3.12/hr
Reviews
87% of 544 positive
It needs 14% off ($8.61) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.61 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

Raising the score
Engagement46% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$3.12/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 327 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A Otome game about romancing monks?! All the romanceable characters are monks?! Sweet yet seductive! The untainted body and soul that only you can touch… PS: The game is set in an alternate history with an alternate religion.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Memory 128Mb, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 72 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 6 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 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, What Comes After ($4.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Lost Records: Bloom & Rage ($21.99, scores 58).

More about Lost in Secular Love

Steam's global achievement data puts 46 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 327 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

The main story runs 3.2 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 2.6 times as long.

The drop-off

74% start to 46% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam 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

Lost in Secular Love is an unconventional otome visual novel that turns a deliberately strange romantic premise into a surprisingly engaging mixture of comedy, affection, temptation, and character drama. Developed and published by YETU GAME, it places the player in an alternate-history setting built around an alternate religion, where the central romantic interests happen to be monks. That concept immediately gives...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 15h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
ziqing and huihai's routes were definitely my favorites, those bad endings though... and zhikong's whole character was definitely... something (very negative)
𐔌՞. .՞𐦯Recommendedafter 1.6hFeb 2026Read on Steam
The writing feels a bit rushed because, you don't see any of the protagonist teaching/training with the monks so their relationship feels a bit fake, because you never see it grow. The dialogs are a bit weirdly written but that could be the time period. But there is only one or two CG's per route, tops. They just added cg's variations as different cg's to collect, but it's the same ones. Not worth the time honnestly.
El PatouNot recommendedafter 8.2hNov 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Lost in Secular Love scores 66/100 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/520850/lost-in-secular-love
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Reviews 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.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperYETU GAME
PublisherYETU GAME
GenreStrategy
Released2016
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements8