Tokyo Dark
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $17.99.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $3.46/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 3870 (512 MB) or GeForce 8800 GT (512 MB), 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
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
April 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $4.49. 69 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 ($8.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Draugen ($19.99, scores 29).
70 from critics against 84 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 19 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 392 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 5.2 hours; clearing it takes 13, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
65% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
A short mystery-adventure with a fairly interesting story to unravel and simple puzzles that still made me feel clever for solving them. Does a great job at building tension, and the price while on sale is excellent value for how well everything is presented. There's also some good replay value if you want to find all the hidden endings. Looking forward to seeing more from this studio!
just barely thumbs up though....no voice is unforgivable in this age...and not being able to go back just to the last choice to play a different scenario is also poor, would have to replay the whole game which I just won't do. On the positive side, a game dealing with Tokyo's dark underbelly, so unappreciated by the swarm of tourists starry eyed about manga/sakura/omotenashi etc etc
A dark, psychological J-horror cop drama, cut with moments of downright wacky humor. I got this on sale and it was worth full price. 15 hours was a 100% clear, so it's not extremely long, but definitely gets its lore across. Warnings include child abuse, cults, (offscreen, implied) forced prostitution, (onscreen) death, unreality.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Tokyo Dark scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/687260/tokyo-darkReviews 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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