Transparent Black
Worth it · RPG · 2017
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.99.
- Length
- 0.8h 2.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.24/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 285 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 578 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
When the school is over, by sunset glow covered. Eight girls still hover, the ones without a lover. How come a girl suffers, in such a Ivory Tower? With feathers shorn and shaven, raucously quoth the raven.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GT200+/R7+/HD, 31 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 28 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 45 percent, about 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 83 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. The nearest things to it, My Friend is a Raven (free, scores 74) and Hellslave ($2.99, scores 69), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Transparent Black
Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 109 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
0.8 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
79% 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
Transparent Black is OKish RPGMaker game to pass some time. Just like Confess My Love, it has multiple endings where it may be tricky to find how to unlock different endings without a guide. The translation is rough, although it's good enough to understand it. But on some occasions, a few characters of the text got cropped which is annoying. This is an informative review, where I chose positive due to its low base...
2 more reviews
Masterfully crafted game that serves as a sequel for Confess My Love. The game is higher quality than Confess My Love in design. The UI looks better. The game is dark and the story is interesting and captivating. The Dlc is also worth it although You can access the content by gettign 10 achievements. The gameplay is also not as repetitive as Confess My Love. I enjoyed this game very much and hope that some day I can...
At first I thought that this was just a simple continuation of Confess My Love that filled in a little bit of details we missed. However, what I was met with was a whole different beast of a game. Tragedy, despair, hope, and love. Everything individual, but muddled together. Something seemingly simple, yet progresses to become more complex until you are lost with answers to questions you've never had. Transparent...
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Cite this score
Transparent Black scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/687830/transparent-blackReviews 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.