RONIN
Skip · Action · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $3.89.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $0.65/hr
- Reviews
- 69% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 compliant video card, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Ronin is stylish a turn-based action platformer following the exploits of a vengeful heroine determined to strike down five prominent figures of a powerful corporation.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
May 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $2.59. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 76 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.89 at 70 percent off still sits 50 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 22. The current cut is what makes it a 28.
It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 74 percent. On the same math Katana ZERO ($14.99, scores 78) and Super House of Dead Ninjas ($19.99, scores 82) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
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 8. This site sampled 488 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 265 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
92% start to 20% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
I've always thought that this game was a bit underappreciated. I wouldn't say it's perfect and it has some frustrating moments but for quite cheap you get 5-10 hours' worth of really fun and satisfying gameplay. If you're still unsure after checking out some gameplay footage I'd wait for a sale during which the game is 100% worth picking up.
Cool old school style game it's ♥♥♥ hard, my ONLY gripe is the controls you tell it to jump in a certain direction and the system just refuses to do so while at other times doing exactly what you want mostly ♥♥♥ up on you during combat, that said it's still a marvelous game yall should check it out for sure!
Cool concept, terrible execution. Clumsy and inconsistent controls. Known bugs unfixed after a decade. Doesn't work at high resolution, no resolution controls in options - just windowed or full screen. For it to be playable at all I have to play in a tiny window that takes up 1/6 of my screen. There's forum posts complaining about this dated to 2016. Gameplay is sorta turn based, and accurate movement is critical...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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RONIN scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/274230/roninThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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