Akai Onna
Skip · Short indie · 2024
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 0.4h 0.6h to 100%
- Value
- $7.48/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 242 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Akai Onna | 赤い女 is a psychological J-horror game featuring a student.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 29 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Anomaly Exit ($5.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Dear Esther: Landmark Edition ($1.99, scores 35).
More about Akai Onna
2 of the 233 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 219 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 94 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Akai Onna scores 49/100 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/2674190/akai-onnaReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.