Ghostwire: Tokyo
Skip · Shooter · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $59.99.
- Length
- 11.4h
- Value
- $5.26/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, GTX1060 / RX5500XT / Arc A380* (VRAM 6GB or higher), 26 GB of storage. Windows only.
Tokyo's population has vanished, and deadly supernatural forces prowl the streets. Use an arsenal of elemental abilities to unravel the truth behind the disappearance and save Tokyo.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was June 2026. It has been discounted 29 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 47 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Amnesia: The Bunker ($24.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Atomic Heart ($59.99, scores 40).
14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 961 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 11.4 hours; clearing it takes 42, which is 3.7 times the campaign.
At 11.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
89% start to 3% 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
97 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Ghostwire: Tokyo Ghostwire: Tokyo is a Japanese game with a really interesting atmosphere and some beautiful graphics. Honestly, I enjoyed the game mostly for the visuals and the Japanese-style environment. It's a good game to play when you just want to relax and enjoy the scenery. However, the gameplay felt a bit odd at times. The biggest problem for me was that most of the ghosts/enemies felt very similar, and you...
The game is OK, but after the initial push, its best to be enjoyed in 2 hours play-sessions, because it does get stale. Its a shame, because i do like the idea of these smaller scale AA games, but this one kind of isn't it. 7 out of 10
tl;dr - wait for a steep sale. Fantastic art direction and setting are let down by an awkward plot, middling gameplay, and empty open world. Changing FOV beyond the narrow default requires Flawless Widescreen. They (I assume at the very least) recreated Tokyo to great lengths and there's just.. nothing to do in it. No (relatively) friendly Yokai or spirits or something to maybe play a minigame or two with. It's fun...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Ghostwire: Tokyo scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1475810/ghostwire-tokyoThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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