Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
Worth it · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $25.48.
- Length
- 30.7h
- Value
- $0.98/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Discover the true power of rice in Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin! Take on hordes of demons in side-scrolling combat to reclaim the land as Sakuna, a spoiled harvest goddess banished to a dangerous island. Then, return to your mountain village and tend a field full of glorious rice.
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 $13.49, set in November 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 35 in the 6 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $25.48, a level the record has reached 33 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games closest to it, Celeste ($19.99, scores 76) and 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure ($19.99, scores 42) both come in lower.
82 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 683 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 338 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
80% start to 23% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Cite this score
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin scores 82/100 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/1356670/sakuna-of-rice-and-ruinReviews 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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