Yomawari: Midnight Shadows
Fair · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.7h
- Value
- $2.60/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics Family (HD 4000), 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The dark is no place to be alone. After a beautiful show of summer fireworks, two young girls begin to make their way home. However, a mysterious attacker separates them, and both must brave the haunting night filled with unspeakable terrors and survive the darkness.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was October 2024. It has been discounted 62 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Incantation ($9.34, scores 38) and Escape the Ayurok ($10.99, scores 37).
None of the 351 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to August 2026.
At 7.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
77% start to 7% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Tedious and frustrating is what I would describe my experience with this game. Yomawari has a beautiful 2d chibi design going for it. Along with a creepy ambiance, but the gameplay loop is atrociously dull. Every night you look for your friend who got separated from you or the reverse. It feels like very little is achieved and it stops being scary once you know the gimmick is just stealth around ghosts or hide.
Yomawari Midnight Shadows is a good game, but it's definitely a step down from the first game. The story is still nothing to really write home about, but the main duo of Yui and Haru pull at heart strings more, and definitely have more development in general. It has a lot of gorgeous little scenes that show the team was more confident in designing environments, but the atmosphere is a bit dampened by it feeling a...
It's alright when it comes to its style, it handles its sounds mostly well and there's an attempt at an equipment system. However, there are many cheap jumpscares, enemies teleporting on you and very tedious trial & error boss sequences. The first couple chapters are pretty good, but the game loses its momentum before the halfway point and progressing becomes a slog. Overall, it's just kinda boring. 100% achievement...
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Cite this score
Yomawari: Midnight Shadows scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/625980/yomawari-midnight-shadowsReviews 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 1.
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