CROSS†CHANNEL: Steam Edition
Worth it · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 13.7h 23.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.73/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 485 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
"This is the Gunjo Broadcasting Club. Is there anyone left out there?” CROSS†CHANNEL is now available to the whole world for the first time ever. Eight students relive an eternally looping week as tensions rise. Can they mend their broken friendships, or are they too far gone to salvage...?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB or higher, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 91 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats ABZU ($19.99, scores 58).
More about CROSS†CHANNEL: Steam Edition
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 13.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 334 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 170 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
66% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 6 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 11:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
As everyone knows this work has mostly ass translations, and indeed steam one is one of the worst. I played it with amaterasu translation which is the one I recommend for everyone till they release something better someday. Steam version has some mini stories that are entertaining and also it adds a lot of CGs I think its worth the 3€. But please play the main game with amaterasu translation or in JOP if you know...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
CROSS†CHANNEL is a visual novel about isolation, failed communication, and the uncomfortable reality of human relationships. It follows Taichi Kurosu, a protagonist who is intentionally written to be deeply flawed. At times he shows empathy and understanding, but just as often his behavior reveals selfishness, manipulation and emotional instability. That contradiction makes him unsettling, but also one of the most...
JUSK OK The story itself is good Low price but long playtime BUT Steam version is sh!t No patch , mediocre translation I'd rather play the Ameterasu version
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
CROSS†CHANNEL: Steam Edition scores 76/100 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/812560/cross-channel-steam-editionReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.