Kawaii Deathu Desu

Kawaii Deathu Desu

Skip · Multiplayer · 2019

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 17, under the fair line, at $3.99.

Length
2.2h 10.6h to 100%
Value
$1.81/hr
Reviews
66% of 336 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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

Holding it back
Reviews66% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 67% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.81/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 191 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

In Kawaii Deathu Desu, supernatural beings find themselves incarnated as cute japanese idols! Pick a supernatural idol and beat the hell out of - no pun intended - as many overzealous fans as you can in this addictive beat'em up as you work your way up to claim the throne of the underworld!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Virtually Anything, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

42 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 65 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 81 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, One Finger Death Punch 2 ($7.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Headsnatchers ($14.99, scores 0).

More about Kawaii Deathu Desu

Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 108 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 47 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 2.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 11, 4.8 times as much.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

70% start to 6% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

A fun and adorable 2 button beat'em up. The graphics are cute and gameplay is simple. Later levels do have a steep difficulty spike in my experience but I still found this an enjoyable game.
MarziAstereaRecommendedafter 2.8hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
I was completely surprised by Kawaii Dethu Desu. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would! Even though I didn't know the characters before I started playing, I thought they were all cute, cool, and different enough that the game never gets boring. Some of the characters' fighting styles are a little gross, but in the cutest way possible. Some reviews called it a "button masher," but I thought the gameplay was...
KenRecommendedafter 8.5hFeb 2026Read on Steam
Went into playing the game with no expectations. Cute character design and a cute concept. Quickly became addicted to playing. The different music levels get progressively harder, but not too hard that you can't beat them with enough practice or leveling up the characters.
purebloodqueenRecommendedafter 18hOct 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Kawaii Deathu Desu scores 17/100 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/1102880/kawaii-deathu-desu
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPippin Games
PublisherTop Hat Studios Inc
GenreMultiplayer
Released2019
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements48