Crimson Gray
Fair · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. A BANGER at $3.77, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2017 (lowest $4.99, Oct 2017).
- Length
- 1.4h 3.1h to 100%
- Value
- $7.14/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 448 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.77 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
John is a young man suffering from severe depression. As he loses his sense of purpose in life, he begins to see the world in unfocused gray. Just when he begins to lose all hope, John meets a girl... a very special girl.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 53 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $3.77, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grunn ($9.74, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Just Ignore Them ($0.75, scores 37).
More about Crimson Gray
Steam's global achievement data puts 38 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 235 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026.
The main story runs 1.4 hours. Doing everything runs 3, 2.2 times as long.
At 1.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
78% start to 38% 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
What players say
Not usually my sort of game, but this was great. Glad I finally got to it. Pretty different from the other VNs I've played so FYI either way.
2 more reviews
"I Can Fix Her" Crimson Gray is probably the best yandere visual novel out there. With its dark atmosphere, well-written characters, captivating story, multiple endings, eerie music, this game has it all for those people looking to get their yandere fix. There are many choices to be made that will take you down a variety of paths. I love the uncertainty you feel with every choice, as it feels like literally anything...
You can think about this game like a yandere dating visual novel, or you can think about it as a story of dealing with chronic mental health issues. If you relate to either of those, certain lines may... hit hard.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Crimson Gray scores 67/100 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/655770/crimson-grayReviews 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.