428: Shibuya Scramble
Worth it · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $49.99, a BANGER if it drops to $30.44.
- Length
- 26.2h
- Value
- $1.91/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.2 or DirectX 9.0c compatible GPU with at least 1GB of VRAM, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
A kidnapping on the streets of Shibuya brings together a hot-blooded detective, hard-hitting journalist, former gang leader, the head researcher of a big pharma manufacturer and a part-timer stuck in cat costume for a series of events each more unexpected and outrageous than the last.
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
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was January 2025. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 53 in the 8 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $30.44 BANGER line 53 times.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kindergarten ($4.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story ($14.99, scores 52).
Steam's global achievement data puts 25 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 3 of the 491 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 236 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
55% start to 25% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
83 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 12:55 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Finally got 100% achievements, so here's my review. Overall, this is an incredibly solid text-based game with a surprisingly deep level of replayability. The gameplay design is genuinely impressive - even by today's standards, the mechanics still hold up extremely well. The story is tightly constructed, with one twist after another, and the pacing keeps you hooked from start to finish. The plot twists are also...
I chose to get all the bad endings for every hour as I went along. That was probably the better choice, because I feel like getting all these joke endings after getting the true ending would be really annoying. It was fun but it's not that deep or anything.
After what felt like way more than 30 hours, I finally reached the normal ending of 428: Shibuya Scramble. Despite my few grievances with certain parts of the game, I am still happy to call 428: Shibuya Scramble a masterpiece. After all, it's no small feat to seamlessly intertwine so many parallel stories, each with their own captivating plots and protagonists blended with a veritable onslaught of emotional set...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
428: Shibuya Scramble scores 76/100 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/648580/428-shibuya-scrambleReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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