Jitsu Squad

Jitsu Squad

Fair · Multiplayer · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.6h 6h to 100%
Value
$3.84/hr
Reviews
85% of 319 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 350 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

Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 83% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$3.84/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 260 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

Jitsu Squad is a Marvel vs Capcom inspired 4 player co-op TAG TEAM beat ‘em up with epic character transformations and fast paced combat.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, AMD Radeon R9 270X, or better, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

18 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 50 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Guns, Gore & Cannoli ($9.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Double Dragon Trilogy ($5.99, scores 0).

More about Jitsu Squad

This site sampled 260 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to July 2026.

HowLongToBeat players log 2.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 6, 2.3 times as much.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

59% start to 13% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Jitsu Squad is a fun side-scrolling beat-'em-up that feels like a modern love letter to classic couch co-op games. One thing I really enjoyed was being able to play locally on the same screen instead of requiring multiple accounts and setups. It brought back some of that old-school multiplayer nostalgia that feels less common these days. The game isn't very long, but it doesn't overstay its welcome either. The...
Hoshi.no.ShinjuRecommendedafter 6.7h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
Enjoyed the illustrations and combo moves, looking forward to more from the studio!
A.L.Recommendedafter 2.5h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Short and sweet The combat is fun and easy to pick up and play, and each character is unique enough. The character and enemy design is just gorgeous and the music is great. My only issue is it's not very long, and there is nothing to do after you beat it except replay with a different character.
michael nemoRecommendedafter 3.3hMar 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Jitsu Squad 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/1522080/jitsu-squad
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTanuki Creative Studio
PublisherTanuki Creative Studio
GenreMultiplayer
Released2022
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements30