Kraken Academy!!
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.5h
- Value
- $1.82/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DX10, DX11, DX12 capable., 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Make friends, free spirits and make sure that the world doesn’t end! Welcome to Kraken Academy, a technicolor fever dream that for legal reasons can only be described as "technically a school." Join forces with a magical kraken to save the world!
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
The lowest price on record is $3.59, set in December 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 50 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, LISA: The Painful ($19.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Reigns: Game of Thrones ($3.99, scores 51).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 362 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to September 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
52% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 01:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Cute characters and concept art, and I think the overall goals of the game with the spirits corresponding to school clubs was interesting. The map was set up in a very intuitive way which I am grateful for as someone who gets lost perpetually (in real life and digitally!) but the game felt a bit repetitive after a while. And there's only so many bottles I can recycle before I lose my mind :D It would be nice to have...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Kraken Academy!! scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1158220/kraken-academyReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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