The Wonderful 101: Remastered

The Wonderful 101: Remastered

Fair · Action · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
15.1h 32.8h to 100%
Value
$2.65/hr
Reviews
87% of 903 positive
It needs 63% off ($14.93) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.93 or less.

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

Raising the score
Engagement4% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.65/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 385 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

Lead an army of 100 Wonderful Ones from around the world in this Unite Action spectacular!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GT 630 (VRAM 1GB), 15 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $16.80. That was June 2026. It has been discounted 45 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 55 percent, about 6 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mr. Shifty ($14.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black ($49.99, scores 33).

More about The Wonderful 101: Remastered

Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 15.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 2 of the 385 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026.

The main story runs 15.1 hours. Doing everything runs 33, 2.2 times as long.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

The drop-off

81% start to 4% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 10:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Wonderful idea, poorly executed. Most of the time you will be fighitng with the controls and camera, and being absolutely bombarded with information in every moment. The presentation and style is fantastic, but your enjoyment may hinge on how willing you are to learn the ins and outs of the battle system and drawing. The original game did use a touchscreen and that might be why it's challenging to use on a regular...
Holodeck JanitorRecommendedafter 2.1hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Easily the best 3D action game I have played. By having a fixed camera angle, it removes the worst part of these games (fighting the camera) and replaces it with an Okami-esque drawing mechanic, which is able to be used in real time unlike in Okami. The combat is easy to get into due to weapons having small movesets but the skill ceiling is high due to there being many different weapons allowing for complex and...
tasoRecommendedafter 15hJun 2026Read on Steam
"If you think there might be something fun in it for you, I'd like you to trust your own curiosity, and just jump right into the game. It's a once in a lifetime game, I think. There are a lot of games that I'm glad I played, and I know that this game will be one of them for you." (Hideki Kamiya)
synthyRecommendedafter 45hJun 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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The Wonderful 101: Remastered scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1190400/the-wonderful-101-remastered
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Reviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+2
Critics85
Players87
Metacritic critics · 903 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPlatinumGames Inc.
PublisherPlatinumGames Inc.
GenreAction
Released2020
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements100