YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $4.92/hr
- Reviews
- 64% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 9800 or better, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Step into a living comic book in this new take on the Ninja Gaiden series. Brandishing his ninja sword and the mecha weapons in his cyber arm, Yaiba slaughters zombies with brutal, over-the-top abandon. Will you slice enemies to pieces, crush them with Yaiba's cyborg arm or just rip off a zombie’s arms to use as nunchucks?
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in March 2020. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 30 in the 13 years tracked, about 18 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 89 percent. NINJA GAIDEN Σ2 [NINJA GAIDEN: Master Collection] ($19.99, scores 35) outscores it, and so does NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black ($19.99, scores 43). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 504 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 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 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 903 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 305 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
6.1 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
At 6.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
93% start to 2% 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
What players say
This game is F##KING BADA$$!!! Have a tough mentality going into it and be willing to learn and you'll be fine and love it. PAY ATTENTION though. Focus. You can't just zone out
I played this game a lot back whenever it dropped on 360/PS3 and honestly loved it. Being older now and buying a cheap copy on Steam, it's still surprisingly fun! Although glitches can happen sometimes such as audio bugs and glitches, attacks dont go through sometimes, it could be the PC port entirely but overall nothing bad, The story is short and sweet and pretty decent. You play as entirely new Ninja from a...
And when you thought Ninja Gaiden 4 is edgy, Yaiba's codex collectibles are written by 12 years old who learnt how to write fanfic for the first time. Gameplay got stale after the first 3rd missions. Hell, even Donte from DMC reboot did better job than this...abomination child. Get this on sale, play it on normal difficulty just for a brainless walk in the park or to complete Ninja Gaiden series on steam.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/252230/yaiba-ninja-gaiden-zReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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