7'scarlet
Skip · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 6.7h 22.8h to 100%
- Value
- $4.48/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 886 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 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
The remote town of Okunezato is shaped like a crescent moon and shrouded in dark myths and legends. Take on the role of a brave young woman journeying into the unknown to uncover dangerous truths and locate her missing brother with her childhood friend.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0-compliant graphic card, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 49 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Life is Strange: True Colors ($17.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Life is Strange: Double Exposure ($19.99, scores 20).
More about 7'scarlet
Of the 461 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
6.7 hours to finish it, 23 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
53% start to 20% 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
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 15, 15:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
TLDR: Grooming and Pedophilia are present in the last route of the game. If you must, buy on sale and refrain from playing the remaining route. CONS: 7-Scarlet is known as one of the worst otome games, and for good reason. Its writing fails to live up to standard and the game is considered 'alright' even for its time. The plot is all over the place and its length barely gives you enough time to get to know the...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
A game that continues to crash every few minutes. You can crash as soon as under three minutes in. There are no Auto-Saves and your Quick Saves will get deleted the moment you crash. There are also freezing issues and you can't play this game offline. If you wish to torture yourself with continuously opening the game every 2 minutes or so, you can have FUN with this one!!! And yes, this issue is known for years...
My game legitly crashed no joke 20 times (every time when I was trying to save so I would lose all my progress. my poor steam friends kept getting spammed with notifications) and the *special* route left MUCH to be desired. I will elaborate below. The art is pretty but not worth the effort. The romance routes were very linear (aka you have two options in the beginning but from there, essentially you have to just...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
7'scarlet scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/839450/7-scarletReviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.