SANABI

SANABI

Worth it · Action · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $14.99.

Length
9.1h
Value
$1.65/hr
Reviews
97% positive
That is 2% off today's $14.99.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Next sale
Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
35% ($9.74)
Last discount ended
2 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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Length
9.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
16.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.65
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Sep 24
Reviews
97%
44,587 reviews, as of Aug 2
Players
750K
owners (estimate)
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

SANABI is an exhilarating stylish dystopian action-platformer. Play as a legendary retired veteran and use your signature prosthetic arm to jump over cliffs and skyscrapers, zip through bullets and traps and defeat powerful enemies.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews97% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement44% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.65/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length9.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach750K+ players
How many own it, a popularity + confidence signal
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked

The value story

The lowest price on record is $9.74, set in June 2024. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 43 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 2 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Owlboy ($19.99, scores 51) and Celeste ($19.99, scores 76) both come in lower.

Steam's global achievement data puts 44 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 4 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 950 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

88% start to 44% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

People genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements

Players

About 160 players at once, as of Sep 11.

Player counts via SteamSpy.

What players say

It was perfect. Perfect. Down to the last minute detail. A spiritual successor to Katana Zero. Amazing art style, parkour, story, ending and everything. Do give it a try.
SchizoidRecommendedafter 19h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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SANABI scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1562700/sanabi
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Reviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.

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Tags

Details

DeveloperWONDER POTION
PublisherNEOWIZ
GenreAction
Released2023
Achievements21
AI contentNone disclosed on Steam