Aka
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 39, under the fair line, at $12.99.
- Length
- 5.4h 7.5h to 100%
- Value
- $2.41/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 699 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
Find inner peace in a small, open-world game. On these carefully handcrafted islands, you can take a nap on a giant monster, feed baby dragons, take care of the fauna and flora... ...but demons from your past might come back to remind you what you want to forget.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
38 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 65 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 31 percent on value. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, No Place Like Home ($19.99, scores 48) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).
More about Aka
Of the 448 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 644 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 125 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
65% start to 6% 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
What players say
What a fun game! It was the perfect combination of cozy and cute, with enough quests to keep me engaged without it feeling overwhelming. Everything flowed really well, too, and the story was meaningful (and a bit sad at times!) The achievements were interesting and fairly easy to get and I liked the simplicity of the crafting system. While I could have used with a few additional layers in the game - i.e. a reason /...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Overall, I enjoyed this game. I enjoyed the simplicity of it and it felt rather cozy. The main story was sweet and heartfelt (carried hard by the ghost encounters). My main issues with the game was that it felt rather grindy at times, some missions were hard to piece together what was needed as the next step was not always made clear and the diagonal walking mechanic is kind of annoying. However, overall I would...
I loved the characters, the idea etc. but there are times where I felt like there was suppose to be more to this game. There's items that you can collect that don't really do anything. Some spaces feel empty. There's an achievement for playing to Day 100 but I completed all the quests around day 30. I kept looking at my island and wanting to decorate it more but there's limited options. It was nice with some really...
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Cite this score
Aka scores 39/100 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/1591450/akaReviews 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.