Umineko: Golden Fantasia

Umineko: Golden Fantasia

Fair · Action · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.2h 10h to 100%
Value
$7.81/hr
Reviews
91% of 535 positive
It needs 64% off ($9.02) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.02 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
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$7.81/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 323 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

The tag-team fighting game based on the original "Umineko When They Cry" series, finally released on Steam, in English and with improved rollback netplay!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT/8500GT/9400GT/GT220 Or Better, 2.4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 60 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lethal League ($13.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Fraymakers ($19.99, scores 44).

More about Umineko: Golden Fantasia

5 of the 323 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 3.2 hours. Doing everything runs 10, 3.1 times as long.

What players say

Spoiler-less Umineko: Golden Fantasia Review As condensed as I could get this while getting as much as I want to describe FIRST OFF : This game's Community Edition (under the game's Properties > Betas) fixes certain bugs (i.e uncapped framerate causing uncapped game speed, soundtrack resetting whenever you "Restart" in Training Mode) and adds the ability to set controls in the menu. There's some nice things to have...
SaansRecommendedafter 487hMay 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game's balance was put together with black tar heroin and a dream also I really like Beatrice I wish she could step on me
Doobie the unbearableRecommendedafter 2.7hMay 2026Read on Steam
I love Umineko, but this has to be the worse game I've ever played. I spent an hour trying to map the buttons on my Xbox controller, and even then I couldn't find an optimal way to play this game. The control stick movements do not register properly most of the time, so I've had to the move the left control stick anti counterclockwise for it to even work, but even then it still doesn't manage to register the...
RealGalaxyNot recommendedafter 4.0hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Umineko: Golden Fantasia scores 52/100 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/550340/umineko-golden-fantasia
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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

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developer07th Expansion
PublisherMangaGamer
GenreAction
Released2017
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate