The 25th Ward: The Silver Case
Worth it · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 16.6h 27.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.20/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 545 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 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
In the bayside area of Kanto, a murder with unknown motivations sets off a series of seemingly random events bringing together peculiar individuals, one of whom is detective Tokio Morishima. When their ambitions begin to collide, a truly shocking pattern emerges…
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Onboard, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 55 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Return of the Obra Dinn ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Paratopic ($4.99, scores 28).
More about The 25th Ward: The Silver Case
None of the 334 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
64% start to 11% 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
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 12:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Kill the Past 3.0 and build the future - on a 50,000-yen loan! Right now! What is it? It's a wildly unconventional title packed with plot twists and morally ambiguous characters caught up in all sorts of affairs - a sequel to *The Silver Case* and *Flower, Sun, and Rain*. It's amazing! Plot and distinctions. Unlike the first game, which featured two detective storylines (Akira and Tokio Morishima), this one gives us...
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I dedicate this review to my ex partner, Giro. Amazing game overall, and yeah, I do agree on KnuckleBlast's comment, the fact that three writers were making three different stores does offer different approaches from one and other. The biggest pro must be the music. Overall, it's a lot of content for a sequel of The Silver Case, I would play it once and that's it. I do truly recommend the music, the art and the...
Lynchian, Nietzchian, Kafkaesque, I am a 52 year old father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my son, who is now 16. My son recently started The 25th Ward: The Silver Case and in less than a week, he had already played for over 20 hours. This was terrible for me, as it was already hard enough for me to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just...
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Cite this score
The 25th Ward: The Silver Case scores 74/100 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/697650/the-25th-ward-the-silver-caseReviews 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.