The Adventures of Fei Duanmu 端木斐异闻录

The Adventures of Fei Duanmu 端木斐异闻录

Worth it · Narrative · 2017

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $3.99.

Length
4.5h
Value
$0.89/hr
Reviews
90% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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Length
4.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
18h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.89
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$3.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
1,752 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX or OpenGL compatible card, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Play as college student who majors in criminal investigation and solve the weird cases happened right beside him! A visual novel involves puzzle solving, reasoning, humor and of course adventures! English version is available now.
Description from the Steam store page.

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
Value$0.89/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement8% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
For context
Length4.5 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 354 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

The value story

August 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $0.51. It has been discounted 81 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.

On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping ($7.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Return of the Obra Dinn ($19.99, scores 76).

Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 354 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to June 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 229 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.

4.5 hours to finish it, 18 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.0 times the campaign.

The drop-off

54% start to 8% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 4.5-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements

Players

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 07:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Duanmu Fei has Miles Edgeworth's logic, Klavier Gavin's suaveness, and Godot's coffee addiction lol I really liked the stories as it also gives me more knowlage on how China is like, not sure if the to be continued will be updated soon with a new case or something like that because I can't search the discussion board when it's filled with chinese only XP This game has a variaty of puzzles in the 2nd case which I...
VidserventRecommendedafter 7.3h51 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This is one VN that I really enjoyed. I prefer detective/crime/mystery/horror novels rather than the ones that focus solely on romance . The Adventures of Fei Duanmu 端木斐异闻录 is a detective/crime novel. You play as Fei, a student of criminal investigation. The game has 2 chapters/cases so far. The 1st one is short and basically an introduction to the mainly characters and the game style. The 2nd is longer and very...
RachelRecommendedafter 18h40 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I enjoyed playing this and recommend it to fans of visual novels, especially if you enjoy detective / murder mystery types of stories. I have not yet played the *now fully translated to English* first DLC, but plan to buy it. Things to know: ** not as dark as many VNs out there right now, but tends toward darker themes ** - this is much closer to a VN than a point and click adventure; however... - there are puzzles...
ImpracticalmagicRecommendedafter 13hJan 2022Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

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The Adventures of Fei Duanmu 端木斐异闻录 scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/593200/the-adventures-of-fei-duanmu
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Details

Developer致意
Publisher致意
GenreNarrative
Released2017
Achievements16