Return to Shironagasu Island on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
Quick menu
A mystery adventure game and visual novel set on solitary Shironagasu Island. Discover its secrets, solve its mysteries, and escape from the ominous island!
Return to Shironagasu Island is a adventure, visual novel and mystery game
developed by HYOGO ONIMUSHI
and published by TABINOMICHI.
Released on March 02nd 2020 is available only on Windows
in 12 languages: Simplified Chinese, Japanese, English, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, German, Polish, French, Traditional Chinese, Russian and Portuguese - Brazil.
It has received 3,523 reviews of which 3,317 were positive and 206 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Return to Shironagasu Island into these genres:
Media & Screenshots
Get an in-depth look at Return to Shironagasu Island through various videos and screenshots.
System requirements
These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.
Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista/7/8/10/11
- Processor: Pentium III 800MHz
- Memory: 256 MB RAM
- Graphics: 128MB
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 800 MB available space
User reviews & Ratings
Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.
01. Intro I'm positive...ly disappointed. I like Shironagasu Island, but I'd have liked it much more, had it been better. I discovered this via artworks of Neneko, and respected the creator of RtSI from there. Having played the game, I respect him more, but even so, I am disappointed. There is a good story here, and it is told okay, but it's far from ideal. There's things that could've been cut out, one-dimensionalities that could've been ironed out. Crucially, the fit between characters & world, and with promotional material, could've been better. SPOILER-FREE 02. Audiovisuals Cover artwork is beautiful, with both the falling & the objects symbolizing progression and characters, though Neneko at the center is misleading. Character art is good, but the cutscenes vary from good to serviceable to flawed. At one point, Neneko's eyes appear as if painted on a flat surface; at another point, in a bathroom, a character's legs seem bendy and rubbery. Voice-acting is present, which is impressive relative to other visual novels. Music ranges from excellent to serviceable. 03. Input Advancing text can be done with four commonly-used keys, which is more than I can say for many visual novels, but all other functions are finnicky or unresponsive. There is no in-game list of inputs, so I wrote a [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3585739586]guide . 04. GUI GUI is standard, and you can hide the dialog box, which is nice, but two bugs are annoying: - overwriting a save then viewing Steam's overlay causes a crash - a hidden dialog box stops Steam's overlay from showing 05. Big Two The story is disappointing for two big reasons — it: 1. sidelines own protagonists 2. errs while delivering a detective fantasy there are supporting reasons for both. I'll soon elaborate. 06. Characters Your character wakes up at an all-girls' school classroom, and in the window, we get to see they are actually detective Ikeda Sen, picking up Neneko at an airport. That's right, contrary to what the cover implies, you play as John Genericus. It's awfully close to plainly fraudulent marketing. Ikeda is a bland & ultracompetent stoic who is either mocking someone or interrogating them. Neneko is meant to be a co-protagonist, but there's very little of her, who is offscreen waiting, staying safe, or being harshly mocked by yours truly, Ikeda. Not only is Neneko underutilized, she's misutilized — relegated to a savant "Rain Woman"; a tropey, walking encyclopedia of factoids who speaks in non-conversational language, and a speaker of "your interaction here was pointless" lines. Except for one bad ending, she never truly demonstrates virtues relating to her willed action, instead of her in-born curse of memory. It is not cool. She could've been herself and cool at the same time. Moreover, her relevance in the story is circumstantial. Literally, she is in the story because she circumstantially appears, without any plausible explanation, method or motive, at the place Ikeda tells her not to be, then sticks around. I can't overstate how disappointing all this is. The story would've been better with more of Neneko, or without her entirely, and instead, with more of the doctoress character. Who, by the way, was a highly promising but underdeveloped character. Of the three underdeveloped characters, a major villain among them, hers is the most lamentable. 07. Dialogue Neneko says "pissing" and "ueh" too many times. The latter is never voiced convincingly, is never cute, but most of all, it happens too much from things that wouldn't plausibly cause this response, even from a scaredy-cat such as her. 08. Main Story We know Neneko is not the protagonist, and that Ikeda is instead. Except they're both sidelined in their own story. Little quality-time is spent on the duo's motives, worries; they don't retreat mentally to find themselves amidst all the horror. Most of the story is, in fact, the past of other characters, the past of the island. It's to the frank point where... neither of them should've been the protagonist, but one of three, perhaps four, characters, with minor modification, should have. Key points in the story rely on leapsome inferences that no detective would make, failing to convey Ikeda as a detective, and to immerse the player in that role. He's a detective as a way to interface player with world, but he could simply be telling someone else's story, it isn't at all required that he be embedded into everything as the nominal protagonist. The protagonist of the real-life history of the Munster Rebellion was not the witness, but those he observed. The story has other contrivances: Ikeda's bizarre being quick-to-trust one character; Ikeda's self as the solution to a specific animal problem; Neneko's finding of a special manual; A major event where Special Character is seen, uses a decoy, is still suspected, then is somehow considered dead despite being seen. 09. Extra Story An "Extra Scenario" is available. It's divided into two parts: the good part; and the jarring, inconsequent dogshit part. The good part is, well, good; it's happy, tense, and awkward. There is more Neneko, and this 'more" is good, but she still gets the least focus, out of all the other characters. There is also more of one specific character. This more is excellent, and left me wanting even more. Sadly, no more came, because the second part arrived. It's a sequence of events blending text with metatext, in jarringly contrived, undeserved, disvaluable ways. It isn't even canonical and feels pointless. You can get a bad end in the present from a decision made within a fucking flashback sequence. As soon as all that's over, the very brief final section begins, ending just as it starts. Neneko and Specific Character are great, and the character artworks were improved from the main story, but it's not enough to counteract the rest. I wanted it to be full-on slice-of-life respite from horror, but instead, that was tacked on, feeling like filler. Disappointing. 10. Closing My most liked chapters were 1, 2 (late), 3 and 5. Besides that Neneko matters so little, I disliked the sections where you are TOLD and FORCED to "Look around". There never is anything meaningful in these sections. It's always "Nothing", "Just a normal thing", "Yeah, that sure is a pointless thing to interact with, why did you do it, retarded player". I did it because I was fucking forced to. You know you've hit gold when the character goes from saying "That's unimportant and boring and dogshit" to "Wow, I just noticed something new here!" Even though it's the same dogshit. The noticing isn't because of a recently acquired new information, it's just because you exhausted the nothings. I'm not sure the people who translated this actually played it, or proofread it. Some of the translation is plain wrong, like a woman's noticing of Ikeda being translated as "Good Afternoon". In the "Main Scenario", a character was said to have broken TWO legs, but later we see it's a SINGULAR leg. In the "Extra Scenario", someone says "I'm not made of Pasta", clearly Pasta, and the translated text says "play dough". It's not major, but distracting. But what I most dislike about Shironagasu Island is the illusion of choice and non-inferential, trial-error decisionmaking. Once, if between ABC you choose C, the characters reject and act as if you chose A, but if you choose A, everything happens as if you chose C, except Sir Protagonoid has an "epiphany". That's the major failure in this detective fantasy. Bad choices leads into Bad Ends, which are rushed and distort the story's sense of time, and don't feel coherent even as bad ends. Were it not for the word count, I would go on. It was disappointing.
Expand the review
good the plot is fine... balanced between horror, suspense and lighthearted comedic moments. though some threads werent fully tied up, left not perfectly sealed. (anyone remember ebi??) extra chapter, compared to the relatively consistent and structured main story... i think authors had fun making this chapter. its got fan service that has author's own definitely totally tame fetishes, along with preposterous clichéd Japanese ghost story/paranormal segment. there are even aliens... all in all a nice little bonus(no it was actually so fucking long...) finished this one on christmas night. i had fun.
Expand the review
I'm in love with this game lol. I immediately got captivated by the sort of Umineko vibes in the beginning and the rest of the story just kept me incredibly invested. I did NOT expect the direction of the plot but I honestly adore that mess and especially that the writing manages to connect everything smoothly to make it (somehow) believable. It was simply such a fun and entertaining story to read; the pace is quite fast but not rushed, the characters are likable and funny (Neneko is such a vibe), I enjoyed the interactive elements, lastly the story itself is way more brutal and twisted than I initially anticipated. I really enjoyed the creative plot and the way the mystery got unveiled. Also the extra story is hilarious (yet scary). Additionally the music and atmosphere are excellent! I found the horror and mystery moments to be very impactful. Altogether I'm highly impressed by this experience. <3
Expand the review
Cinema...... Pure Cinema.... I expected a terribly painful horror experience, pleasantly surprised to dig through and see game full of so much charm. The first half was very tense and the mystery was well made, then it went wild on the second half; It made me like the characters and sympathize with them, it made me remember them. This is the first game I've played that made me want to fully craft a complete steam badge, and the third to make me want to get all achievements. For only under 20 hours it impacted me greatly.
Expand the review
What if Umineko happened on Epstein island and there was also a weird little green creature running around
Expand the review
Similar games
View all
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Tokyo Dark
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch. 5 Meakashi
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
A strange rumor is spreading through the shadows of Tokyo's H City: a mysterious disfigurement has been appearing on the bodies of certain individuals. Anyone who receives the Mark will rapidly die of unknown, horrifying causes. The countdown to death has already begun...
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Jabberwock Island—You and your classmates were ready for fun in the sun until Monokuma returned to restart his murderous game! Trapped in a kill-or-be-killed situation, your only hope rests in solving the island’s mysteries.
√Letter - Root Letter -
When a letter is delivered 15 years late - you discover an old pen-friend was involved in a murder, before she disappeared. Travelling to her hometown, you must investigate the murder, using her past letters as clues to uncover the disturbing truth.
CHAOS;CHILD
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.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.4 Himatsubushi
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Frequently Asked Questions
Return to Shironagasu Island is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam.
Return to Shironagasu Island is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 3.99€ on Steam.
Return to Shironagasu Island received 3,317 positive votes out of a total of 3,523 achieving an impressive rating of 9.04.
😍
Return to Shironagasu Island was developed by HYOGO ONIMUSHI and published by TABINOMICHI.
Return to Shironagasu Island is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Return to Shironagasu Island is not playable on MacOS.
Return to Shironagasu Island is not playable on Linux.
Return to Shironagasu Island is a single-player game.
There are 3 DLCs available for Return to Shironagasu Island. Explore additional content available for Return to Shironagasu Island on Steam.
Return to Shironagasu Island does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Return to Shironagasu Island does not support Steam Remote Play.
Return to Shironagasu Island is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Return to Shironagasu Island.
Data sources
The information presented on this page is sourced from reliable APIs to ensure accuracy and relevance. We utilize the Steam API to gather data on game details, including titles, descriptions, prices, and user reviews. This allows us to provide you with the most up-to-date information directly from the Steam platform.
Additionally, we incorporate data from the SteamSpy API, which offers insights into game sales and player statistics. This helps us present a comprehensive view of each game's popularity and performance within the gaming community.
Last Updates| Steam data | 28 January 2026 23:24 |
|---|---|
| SteamSpy data | 25 January 2026 14:08 |
| Steam price | 29 January 2026 20:26 |
| Steam reviews | 28 January 2026 23:56 |
If you'd like to dive deeper into the details about Return to Shironagasu Island, we invite you to check out a few dedicated websites that offer extensive information and insights. These platforms provide valuable data, analysis, and user-generated reports to enhance your understanding of the game and its performance.
- SteamDB - A comprehensive database of everything on Steam about Return to Shironagasu Island
- SteamCharts - Analysis of Return to Shironagasu Island concurrent players on Steam
- ProtonDB - Crowdsourced reports on Linux and Steam Deck Return to Shironagasu Island compatibility
Game modes
Features
Online players
10
Developer
HYOGO ONIMUSHI
Publisher
TABINOMICHI
Release
02 Mar 2020
Platforms