Sanator: Scarlet Scarf
Fair · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.4h 2.2h to 100%
- Value
- $7.14/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 537 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.23 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
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About the game
Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX compatible card, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
83 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Children of Silentown: Prologue (free, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats The Midnight Walk ($29.99, scores 51).
More about Sanator: Scarlet Scarf
This site sampled 346 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 166 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
65% start to 29% 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
I'm going to be upfront and say I bought this just because the backgrounds and the avatar look so cool 😭. I'm glad I did though because I enjoyed the story. I came in completely blind so I was expecting a long fantasy game. But then I was surprised when the game suddenly ended (not crashed, the story just came to an abrupt close). I was considering not going for the other endings but I decided to do it anyways since...
2 more reviews
short and sweet. interesting world and characters, though held back by a somewhat poor english localization. i got it on sale for just a few bucks and found it really worth it!
I see plague doctors - I put in a positive review. It's not important - metroidvania, action game, puzzle or visual novel, as here. Positive! Especially here, a short visual novel with a good story. Play game, stop plague!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sanator: Scarlet Scarf scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/650330/sanator-scarlet-scarfReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.