Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
Fair · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GT640, AMD Radeon HD7750, 1GB Vram, 4.4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Aiko's Choice is the anticipated standalone expansion to the acclaimed stealth strategy game Shadow Tactics. Set in Edo Japan, you take control of the skillful kunoichi adept Aiko and her deadly assassin friends to hunt down the ghosts of her past.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in January 2024. 47 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun ($39.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Partisans 1941 ($29.99, scores 53).
The press gave it 83; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 561 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 191 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
62% start to 8% 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
15 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 12:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
Cite this score
Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1579380/shadow-tactics-aiko-s-choiceReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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