CHAOS;CHILD
BANGER · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 31.3h
- Value
- $0.80/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics Series (With 1GB memory allocation), 17 GB of storage. Windows only.
From the creators of the critically acclaimed STEINS;GATE comes a sensational new visual novel: CHAOS;CHILD. Set in Shibuya in 2015, a group of high school students who survived an earthquake six years ago find themselves at the center of a new series of bizarre murders in the city.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was July 2025. It has been discounted 49 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kindergarten ($4.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Welcome to Kowloon ($6.99, scores 41).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $31.46. It costs $24.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 526 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 175 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
65% start to 34% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
33 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 21:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Coming into the game, it's a huge step above in terms of quality and production from the previous entries. The evolution of the UI from steins;gate -> robotics;notes -> chaos;child it feels as if i'm finally playing a ps4 game (good thing!) chaos;child easily became one of my favorites because of the character dynamics, i genuinely did not dislike any of the main cast at all and the story is just... SO good i can't...
Very good VN. Same vibes as Chaos Head, but the protagonist is much more stomachable. I actually enjoyed the story in this one much more.
The story wasn't that deep, it was rather predictable. So were the characters. MC's decision making was rather frustrating. ...but despite all that, watching this group of teenagers struggle in the abnormal situations, sort out their relationship problems and reach a conclusion felt... good? I don't even know. But it was fun. Real fun. Surprisingly one of the most memorable VNs I've played.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
CHAOS;CHILD scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/970570/chaos-childReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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