Ninja Village
Worth it · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $8.99.
- Length
- 13.5h 24.3h to 100%
- Value
- $0.67/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 589 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 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
Lead a ninja clan in the war to unify feudal Japan!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
33 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 61 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Heroes' Vow: Three Kingdoms ($19.99, scores 49) and Game of Thrones Winter is Coming (free, scores 7), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Ninja Village
1 of the 335 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 13.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
90% start to 32% 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
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 19:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I liked it so I'm recommending it but it has caveats. There's two halves to this game, a town designing/management one where the goal is to be selling things to visitors, and a wargame aspect where you build up an army & your unique characters that you train, equip and that fight in the army also like generals. The town management part is where the game is bad. It's overly simplistic and awkward to direct compared...
2 more reviews
When Kairosoft trying to make a war game. This is the second town simulation game Kairosoft has made with a feudal Japanese theme. As expected, it includes familiar Kairosoft mechanics such as building combos and character customization, but this time, they also introduce two new mechanics: 1. Auto Combat. In this game, you can recruit soldiers such as spearmen, bowmen, gunners, and cavalry to fight for Japan. Your...
The perfect pixel-art palette cleanser that proves Kairosoft is the master of cozy simulation. If you are feeling completely burnt out from massively complex grand strategy games or high-stakes competitive shooters, Ninja Village is the exact cure you are looking for. True to the classic Kairosoft formula, it wraps a surprisingly engaging management simulator in a wonderfully charming, nostalgic pixel-art aesthetic...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ninja Village scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1918520/ninja-villageReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.