Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
Fair · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 13.4h 20.4h to 100%
- Value
- $1.12/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 521 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
An anthology series that serves as a Corpse Party sequel, prequel, midquel, and alternate universe tale all in one. Rejoin old friends for a deeper dive into the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 64 MB VRAM, 3D accelerator compatible w/ DirectX 9.0c, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 56 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kindergarten 2 ($14.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Just Ignore Them ($0.75, scores 37).
More about Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
2 of the 336 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
54% start to 12% 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
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 11, 07:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Played the Corpse Party (2016 Steam or is it 2006 version? I'm not too knowledgeable on that part.) It has a nice story for its time, simple yet thrilling. I went to check out how should I progress from there and landed on Book of Shadows as my second game in the series. ...and I am quite disappointed? Definitely doesn't give a similar vibe to the first game, and I'm not talking about gameplay style changing into...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is broken and not worth buying. as a long time fan of the franchise this is by far the worst part of the entire thing is this one game. It is buggy, basic features don't work right, there is no easy way to reset from corupped save files (which happen so often). there is even a glitch around the most basic of features that completely breaks the game that has been present since 2018 that has still not been...
Written in a way that elicits a visceral reaction from the reader almost every time. Incredibly gross and unnerving which is exactly what it should be. Okay game, but a good experience.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/778390/corpse-party-book-of-shadowsReviews 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.