GINKA
Fair · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $22.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.7h
- Value
- $2.64/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($16.09)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($13.79)
- Last discount ended
- 33 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, VRAM320MB, 1280×720, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
"Return to that summer with you..." Ryusei returns to the small island of his younger years, where time flows by gently, to spend a fairy-tale summer vacation with his childhood friend who was spirited away.
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 $13.79, set in December 2025. It has been discounted 21 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip ($3.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats BOKURA: planet ($3.56, scores 35).
2 of the 528 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 219 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 11:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Pouting has never been this cute before. Poi!! Ginka is a visual novel developed by Frontwing, with heavy focus on character and worldbuilding. This story was written by the same team behind ATRI, but the question is: does Ginka live up to the same high standards as Atri? Let's find out. The positives of this game are fairly obvious. This game is an audiovisual treat, with extremely gorgeous and detailed art...
Starts off with ATRI vibes but distinguishes itself after that. Unrequited romance, supernatural mysteries, great voice acting, characters, soundtrack and art. Yes yes yes
Really need a "neutral" option here. The soundtrack called "カタシロと願い" which appears repeatedly in all sorts of important scenes is pretty good. It alone evoked more emotion than most of the scene text. I do actually like the overall idea and even the structure, and the story does play some interesting games with narratives. There are several times I needed to re-contextualize a scene, then re-contextualize again...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
GINKA scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) 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/2536840/ginkaReviews 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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