Shadow of the Ninja - Reborn
Skip · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 26, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 3.6h 12h to 100%
- Value
- $5.55/hr
- Reviews
- 72% of 652 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
After 34 years in the shadows, prepare to see this legendary action adventure in a new light! Looking and playing better than ever before, Shadow of the Ninja - Reborn is Tengo Project’s remake of a cult classic, that the fans have been waiting for.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R7 260X (2GB VRAM) / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750(2GB VRAM), 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
12 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre. On the same math The Messenger ($3.99, scores 90) and AWAKEN - Astral Blade ($19.99, scores 50) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Shadow of the Ninja - Reborn
Of the 470 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 206 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
3.6 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.3 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
49% 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
Amazing action platformer. Extremely tight controls, GORGEOUS pixel art, fantastic level design. IT DOES IT ALL!
2 more reviews
If you love the sidescrolling platformers of yesteryear and you love a fair and balanced challenge, this one's for you. Excellent remake of an excellent game. The mechanics are rock solid. No-missing the game is entirely possible if you put in the work. I wish there were more like this. Own it here and on switch - good enough to buy twice.
Over the past decade, original developers from Natsume have been gradually remaking their catalog of NES and SNES games. All of these games were fantastic on first release, and Tengo Project have done an exceptional job subtly enhancing them while also preserving their original identities. "Shadow of the Ninja Reborn" is no exception, though it's a departure from their first 3 remakes: It's the first one to...
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Cite this score
Shadow of the Ninja - Reborn scores 26/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2543760/shadow-of-the-ninja-rebornReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.