KAKU: Ancient Seal
Fair · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $9.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since May 2023. Buy it now if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.93/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 1,127
- Genre rank
- Top 16% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
Score at full price
Score today
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.7h
- To 100%
- 39.1h 3.7x the story
- Finish
- 4% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 84
Price and sales
- Sales
- 38 on record
- Typical cut
- 30% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 November 2026
- Sale every
- 38d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 71% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
74% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
November 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. It has been discounted 38 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hogwarts Legacy ($59.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Immortals Fenyx Rising ($39.99, scores 29).
More about KAKU: Ancient Seal
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 461 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 150 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.7 hours. Doing everything runs 39, 3.7 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Good game, that I need to play more of. FUN was the last thing I remember. Try the demo if you are on the fence. I like this game.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's a good open world game with lots of puzzles and tons of things to do. I'm really enjoying it so far.
Really wanted to like this game. Reminded me of Pine, which I enjoyed. Unfortunately, it's become so frustrating I don't even want to try any more. - Saves are at specific locations, meaning if you want to explore and die you go back to that location. - I remapped Sprint to <shift>, which is normal and sometimes the game remembers my change, sometimes it doesn't. I want to sprint but end up dodging, and falling into...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
An Open world Action adventure combining exploration with puzzles and dynamic combat. Go on a journey across a sprawling continent as Kaku, a boy tasked to restore balance to the land. Brave the four elemental regions with the help of Piggy, his powerful companion and conquer their lords.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX1050Ti 4GB or AMD RX580 4GB or Higher, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
KAKU: Ancient Seal scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1179580/kaku-ancient-sealReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.