SCARLET NEXUS
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $59.99.
- Length
- 25.1h
- Value
- $2.39/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
March 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $9.59. It has been discounted 44 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 27 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE ($9.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Immortals Fenyx Rising ($3.99, scores 34).
7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 1,092 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.
25.1 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.
The drop-off
75% start to 3% 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
58 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
1- What is good? Combat, Bosses, Spectacle, Graphic Style 2- What is bad? Some bosses are unbalanced on the highest difficulty, Enemy placement sometimes reminded me of Dark Souls 2 There is a steep learning curve to have the best combat flow Story.... It melts you brain, too convoluted, even Vaatividya would need a guide to explain it Overall, very good game
Beautiful game, beautiful story, fun combat and cool graphics, I'd highly recommend this to anyone
I have about 6 hours logged into the game, and to be completely frank, I dont know what the hell this game wants me to care about. The dialogue is terrible and intentionally vague, and all the scenes are horribly disjointed and tonally divorced from one another. Things just *happen* and the game demands you just accept that and move on, while actively refusing to answer your questions about the WHY things are...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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SCARLET NEXUS scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/775500/scarlet-nexusThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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