Sifu
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99.
- Length
- 7.8h
- Value
- $5.13/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Radeon R7 250 or GeForce GT 640 or equivalent, 22 GB of storage. Windows only.
Sifu is a realistic third-person brawler with tight Kung Fu combat mechanics and cinematic martial arts action embarking you on a path for revenge.
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
July 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 35 in the 3 years tracked, about 5 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 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, One Finger Death Punch ($4.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Absolver ($2.99, scores 35).
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 11 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
15 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 2,113 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 7.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 23, 2.9 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
95% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
394 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
this game made me tear my hair out, practice karate in my living room and watch karate kid 2 times. 10/10, don't worry about being perfect, just have fun and avenge your father. as shifu said, " its okay to play the game on disciple, you still get achievements "
sifu es este juego sobre artes marciales. bastante entretenido, la verdad. contiene una mecanica muy interesante; cada vez que moris, te volves mas viejo. al llegar a los 70 años, game over. es posible interpretarlo (y hasta donde cace en algun momento con mis sentidos, se ha hecho) sobre como perseguir obsesivamente un objetivo tiene un costo vital irrecuperable. en este caso, el de la venganza. TERMINAR MAS TARDE
This game is weird - its feels like its designed to waste my time than being fun. i like the combat am geting good at it but thats because i feel like i know enemy moves, than skill improvement. the timings feel too short and the tells get hidden because of bad camera. i dont mind one of those but combined its a nightmare. the more i get good at this game the more i feel brain dead - like how ! this is a unique...
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Sifu scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2138710/sifuThe 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 19, price as of Sep 23.
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