Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $6.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2024. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 7.5h
- Value
- $0.93/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 65% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($7.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 65% ($6.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB / AMD RX 580 8GB / Intel Arc A380, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.99, set in November 2025. It has been discounted 20 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $6.99 at 65 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 48. With it, 62.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Islets ($19.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Greak: Memories of Azur ($3.99, scores 53).
Steam's global achievement data puts 25 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 457 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 125 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
80% start to 25% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Game is short but it has a touching story and interesting visuals. It's weaker in the gameplay department than some of its contemporaries, but it has the makings of something much more interesting. I think if this studio makes a follow up, whether a sequel or a different game in the same genre, they will be able to add the polish it needs to really make the mechanics shine. I highly recommend this game, very worth...
Really enjoyable game. Also very cool to get something based on African mythology. Great fit for Steam Deck too. There is a Deck preset, but I found you can get even higher settings playable by disabling AA and Vsync. Buttery smooth and very pretty
Beautiful game with a great story, great voice acting, great soundtrack and fun mechanics. I loved how the game incorporated various common aspects of Bantu culture and I hope to see more games in the future that incorporate more African cultures.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2316580/tales-of-kenzera-zauReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 1.
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