Night Call
Skip · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 4.5h 33.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.66/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 750 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Friend. Confidant. Therapist. Voyeur. As a cab driver working the Paris night shift, you are many things to different people. Your gift is getting people to talk; and in order to catch the serial killer who left you for dead, that’s exactly what you’ll need to do.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel UHD 630, Geforce GTX 275, Quadro 2000D or equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
67 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 77 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 29 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Grunn ($9.74, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Telling Lies ($4.99, scores 12).
More about Night Call
1 of the 337 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
4.5 hours to finish it, 34 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 7.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
75% start to 2% 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
Tried to get into it, but the storylines were hard to follow and to be honest I got bored with the gameplay after playing for an hour.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Hmm, I'm not quite sure what to make of this game. Night Call definitely has its strenghts. Visually it's very atmospheric and the Taxi dialogues satisfy my inner voyeur and even tickle some quite philosophical itches. There's a bunch of very different characters to drive around each with their own interesting stories. However, actually you have to solve a criminal case, and thats where the game falls short. There...
A real example of style over substance. Despite its interesting premise, it quickly becomes another "everybody's got a story" talking simulator with a dose of magical realism - and with nothing much to add. The detective work ultimately consists of making an educated guess, which just isn't that satisfying. The lo-fi artwork style is probably a case of "either you like it or you don't"... you can guess where I fall...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Night Call scores 40/100 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/680380/night-callReviews 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.