Little Busters! English Edition
BANGER · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $34.99.
- Length
- 59h
- Value
- $0.59/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
Capturing the hearts of countless fans since 2007, Little Busters! is an emotional visual novel from Key, the minds behind Angel Beats! and CLANNAD. This special English release supports touch controls and dynamic switching between English and Japanese text, and is in HD for the first time on PC.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $12.24, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 47 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ($12.99, scores 77) and Not Tonight ($2.99, scores 63).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $79.22. It costs $34.99.
None of the 322 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 98 percent of the 125 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
68% start to 8% 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
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 22:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
One of my favorite visual novels but I am surprised that I stumbled upon a gamebreaking bug where you get locked out of Saya's route and there are other instances of people having issues with trying to read the extra chapters. The steam edition is going to be 10 years old and I'm surprised this hasn't been fixed at all. At least there are no problems with the core experience.
Definitely must play. Ain't gonna yap alot so I'll mention the pros and cons. PROS : + 40-60 hour playtime + Laugh out loud comedy moments + Every character literally has a unique and lovable personality + Excellent and memorable soundtrack + Fun minigame that absolutely skippable if u too lazy to play + Peak voice acting especially in emotional scenes + The last episode that could make you sob (at least for 1 hour...
its pretty long but definitely worth every second and the best thing ive ever read. a masterpiece everyone must experience atleast once
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Little Busters! English Edition scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/635940/little-busters-english-editionReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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