Mineko's Night Market
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 18.4h
- Value
- $1.09/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 730, 2 GB or AMD Radeon R7 240, 2 GB, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Mineko’s Night Market is a narrative-driven, social simulation adventure game that celebrates Japanese culture and invites players to craft whimsical items, eat delicious snacks, and ultimately enjoy all the cats.
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
August 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. It has been discounted 19 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 26 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Animal Shelter ($19.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 19 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 18.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 311 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
84% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mineko's Night Market scores 42/100 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/762940/mineko-s-night-marketReviews 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 Aug 3, price as of Oct 1.
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