SCARLET NEXUS
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 84% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$59.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$9.5984% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 18,268
- Critics
- 78 players 2 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 27% RPG
Holding it back: Recent reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 67% over the last 30 days against 80% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.59 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 25.2h
- To 100%
- 60.8h 2.4x the story
- Achievements
- 53
Price and sales
- Sales
- 46 on record
- Typical cut
- 84% off
- Steam low
- $9.59 March 2024
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 45 now
- Recent reviews
- 67% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 77% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
75% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 46 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 84 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 2 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 27 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE ($39.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Hyper Light Breaker ($29.99, scores 0).
More about SCARLET NEXUS
Players rate it 80 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 67 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 1,091 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
25.2 hours to finish it, 61 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 2 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
The story and gameplay are actually great, but the downside is that the story cutscenes are like a PowerPoint presentation
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Fun game, not the best story telling method but I understand the intention of the developers to encourage players to play New Game +, although the story itself is not bad, but not great either. The best thing in this game must be Art Direction, also the reason why I play it in the first place, cool monster and costume design that actually alternate cutscenes, which for most part of the game are literally Powerpoint...
Played about 18 hours in. The story is very confusing and all over the place, while the characters are somewhat interesting I found the corridor simulator designs bland and felt the combat got repetetive with not much variety in enemy design. Overall I think there are much better action games to scratch the itch like Nier Automata, DMC, and Kingdom Hearts I can't recommend a watered down version of them
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Choose between Yuito and Kasane, elite psionics each armed with a talent in psychokinesis and their own reason to fight. Complete both of their stories to unlock all the mysteries of a Brain Punk future caught between technology and psychic abilities.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 760, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7970, 3 GB, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
SCARLET NEXUS scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/775500/scarlet-nexusReviews 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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.