NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound

NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound

Fair · Action · 2025

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $24.99. A BANGER at $5.10, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2025 (lowest $14.99, Jun 2026).

Length
6.1h
Value
$4.10/hr
Reviews
92% positive
It needs 80% off ($5.10) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $13.73.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
30% ($17.49)
Deepest seasonal cut
40% ($14.99)
Last discount ended
24 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
6.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
15.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.10
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
92%
2,712 reviews, as of Sep 25
Metacritic
84
critic score
Released
2025

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 220, 1 GB or AMD Radeon HD 4550, 1GB. Windows only.

A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement20% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.10/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length6.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 500 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in June 2026. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 9 in the 14 months tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago. No sale on record has reached $5.10, the price it would take to be a BANGER.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Blasphemous ($24.99, scores 64) outscores it, and so does Blasphemous 2 ($29.99, scores 72). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

Critics scored it 84. Players sit 8 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Steam's global achievement data puts 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 500 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. In its first 30 days on sale, 1 of 100 sampled reviews came from a refunder. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 358 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 6.1 hours. Doing everything runs 15, 2.5 times as long.

At 6.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

98% start to 20% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 15:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound scores 58/100 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/2542120/ninja-gaiden-ragebound
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Reviews 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 25, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+8
Critics
84
Players
92
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 2,712 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperThe Game Kitchen
PublisherDotemu
GenreAction
Released2025
Achievements36