Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut
Fair · Action · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.1h
- Value
- $1.96/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
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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 $2.49, set in March 2015. It has been discounted 45 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 12 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($7.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Owlboy ($19.99, scores 51).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 372 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 116 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
84% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 5.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 00:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I liked the presentation (music, graphics, animations) and the gameplay was alright. What I hated is backtracking and how easy it is to miss some of the items that are needed to beat the game (for example, coffee beans and monkey bullet ability). Moving around this world became a chore very quickly because of that and that's what you do most of the time, especially when you miss an item and it makes you run around...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut scores 59/100 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/277890/shantae-risky-s-revenge-director-s-cutReviews 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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