Actraiser Renaissance
Skip · Action · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 17.7h 36.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.69/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 783 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
About the game
Heaven, earth and mankind - Create and destroy everything according to your will! Experience the revival of the '90s classic hit "Actraiser"
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R7 240,NVIDIA GeForce GT 730, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 28 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 42 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY XVI ($49.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats 江湖客栈-The Jianghu (free, scores 1).
More about Actraiser Renaissance
This site sampled 477 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 550 have a larger share.
17.7 hours to finish it, 37 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
92% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Sep 28, 10:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I really wanted to like this game. It's not awful, but I don't think I would ever recommend anyone to play it. The "upgrades" from the original game are either worse than the original, or just a sidegrade. In trying to flesh out stories, they somehow made it less interesting. No longer is there any exploration of the sim abilities, you just get a quest and it tells you exactly what to do every time. The graphics are...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Back in the day, loved the original Actraiser on the SNES. Given this, I do like the action sequences much better than the quasi-defense you do in the original, however - the interruptions on the original seem a bit more in pace with growing the town. Unfortunately, gave this remake one another go today just to see why I stopped playing it a while ago - and it's absolutely jarring in the amount of interruptions you...
It's a fun remake except for two things. When you finish the main campaign boss, you have to sit all the way through the credits. After that, you can play the bonus stage. When you finish the bonus stage boss, you have to sit all the way through the credits again.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Actraiser Renaissance scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1393370/actraiser-renaissanceReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.