Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome

Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome

Skip · Narrative · 2017

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$24.99Skip

On its price record

$9.80Fair

Length
5.8h 13.8h to 100%
Value
$4.31/hr
Reviews
82% of 380 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.80 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
Engagement17% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.31/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews82% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 211 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

When two handsome young men spot the perfect girl to be their first model and help make a name for themselves, they're determined to go for broke and make her shine—but first they'll have to get her out of her house! Can these two really give such an anti-social recluse the makeover she needs to be a star?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

59 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 38 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, GreedFall ($3.49, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition ($39.99, scores 27).

More about Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome

Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 211 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

The main story runs 5.8 hours. Doing everything runs 14, 2.4 times as long.

The drop-off

91% start to 17% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 22:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome is an eccentric otome visual novel that takes the familiar makeover-romance concept and turns it into something far more chaotic, suggestive, and comedic. Developed by kalmia8 and published by MangaGamer, the game follows Ema Tachibana, a young woman who has little interest in popularity, romance, or becoming the center of anyone's attention. Instead of portraying loneliness as...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 14hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
This game is so freaking FUNNY! I literally laughed out loud so many times from the hilarious lines and visuals in it. I have to say, even when I get all the achievements, I'm probably gonna replay it just for the laughs.
MaomaoRecommendedafter 5.6hAug 2026Read on Steam
Hello there, fellow VN enjoyers! I thought I'd share my thoughts and feelings on this game as well. I usually don't write many reviews (especially compared to how many video games, across all kinds of genres, I've played throughout my life). Also, English isn't my native language, so sorry in advance for any mistakes. Please be aware that this review may contain a few minor or bigger spoilers. Those will be marked...
̷k̷u̷r̷u̷s̷h̷i̷iRecommendedafter 41hAug 2026Read 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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Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/640990/fashioning-little-miss-lonesome
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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 29, 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

Developerkalmia8
PublisherMangaGamer
GenreNarrative
Released2017
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements29