Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Fair · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $8.69, only fair at $39.99.
- Length
- 10.3h
- Value
- $3.88/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R7 360 2GB/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB or Equivalent, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
A story-driven, action adventure combining exploration with fast-paced combat. Untangle the past as Kena, a young Spirit Guide in search of the sacred Mountain Shrine. Help free the spirits trapped in a forgotten village with the help of the Rot, her adorable (yet powerful) spirit companions.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $11.99. That was December 2025. 24 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks. No sale on record has reached $8.69, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fear the Spotlight ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Praey for the Gods ($29.99, scores 36).
The press gave it 83; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On a 10.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 1,332 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.3 hours. Doing everything runs 21, 2.0 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
93% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 10.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
43 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Great game with astonishing audio and visuals, combat is somewhat lacking but this compromise can me forgiven.
A charming game with stunning visuals and a touching story. Definitely worth playing. Can't wait for part 2!
Kena: Bridge of Spirits was an interesting game, to say the least. I genuinely don't think I've played anything quite like it before. The first thing that immediately stood out was just how incredible the game looks, especially on an OLED monitor. The colours, lighting and contrast are absolutely stunning. The game constantly switches between bright, colourful environments and much darker, almost eerie areas, and...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Kena: Bridge of Spirits scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1954200/kena-bridge-of-spiritsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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