Kena: Bridge of Spirits

Kena: Bridge of Spirits

Fair · Action · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$39.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$13.9965% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$3.88/hr
ReviewsS
92% of 17,760
Critics
83 players 9 higher
Genre rank
Top 7% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 79% off ($8.54) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $23.01.
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
10.3h
To 100%
20.7h 2.0x the story
Achievements
41

Price and sales

Sales
25 on record
Typical cut
60% off
Steam low
$11.99 December 2025
Sale every
56d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $11.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
51 now
Recent reviews
89% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
97% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

93% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

25 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $8.54, the price it would take to be a BANGER.

Its score puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Blue Fire ($19.99, scores 49) and The Pathless ($39.99, scores 45).

More about Kena: Bridge of Spirits

The press gave it 83; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 1,336 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.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.88/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds5 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

super beautiful world but gameplay is unbelievably boring wouldnt recommend for more then 10$
boootyyyjuice91Not recommendedafter 3.8h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Despite being visually stunning it's a bad game. The story is bad (I understand that it's supposed to mild and friendly but it's still bad). Voice acting and dialogues are horrendous. But the worst offender is the gameplay no matter what difficulty you choose you will be bored and unsatisfied with the combat. the puzzles are piss easy but that's not the issue the issue is some puzzles require backtracking since you...
CatoblepasNot recommendedafter 13h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
While the soulslike tag may be a bit misleading, I still do think it's a great game and many soulslike players will enjoy this one as well. The combat feels very familiar - a rolldodge based combat with simple melee attacks, plus a bow and bombs which give it some diversity. That's probably why the soulslike tag because the combat itself really is visibly souls-inspired. The game is much less punishing, even on the...
Berried DelightRecommendedafter 24h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

Cite this score

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Kena: Bridge of Spirits scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1954200/kena-bridge-of-spirits
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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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+9
Critics83
Players92
Metacritic critics · 17,760 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperEmber Lab
PublisherEmber Lab
GenreAction
Released2022
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements41