Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival
Skip · Short indie · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 35, under the fair line, at $49.99. Fair at $12.28, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Aug 2024 (lowest $24.99, Jun 2026).
- Length
- 10.6h
- Value
- $4.72/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 6 of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($29.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($24.99)
- Last discount ended
- 14 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 2 GB / AMD Radeon HD 7770, 2 GB / Intel Iris Plus, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival is a drum-based rhythm game featuring songs from genres such as Anime and VOCALOID™, and also a variety of game modes! Have fun playing solo or online!
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
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $24.99. That was June 2026. It has been discounted 13 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 39 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Beat Saber ($19.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Headbangers: Rhythm Royale ($3.99, scores 24).
15 of the 307 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 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 727 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 122 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 233 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.6 hours. Doing everything runs 34, 3.2 times as long.
At 10.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
99% start to 5% 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
139 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 11:02 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2288630/taiko-no-tatsujin-rhythm-festivalReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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