Rise of the Ronin
Skip · RPG · 2025
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 9, under the fair line, at $49.99.
- Length
- 24.2h
- Value
- $2.07/hr
- Reviews
- 63% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 72% over the last 30 days against 63% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, 155 GB of storage. Windows only.
Embark on an epic journey across war-torn 19th-century Japan in this open-world action RPG from Team NINJA, the veteran studio behind "Nioh" and "NINJA GAIDEN."
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 $24.99, set in March 2026. 13 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Immortals Fenyx Rising ($3.99, scores 34) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($39.99, scores 1).
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 73 against 63 percent.
Players rate it 63 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 72 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 30 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 187 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 10 of the 30 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 669 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
24.2 hours to finish it, 67 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Rise of the Ronin scores 9/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1340990/rise-of-the-roninReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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