KAMUI
Skip · Shooter · 2014
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$7.99Skip
On its price record
$5.53Fair
- Length
- 0.6h 5h to 100%
- Value
- $13.32/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 224 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.53 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Centuries have passed since the events of RefleX and mankind has once again attained civilization. Now, ancient technology born of a twisted mind sets in motion a chain of events designed to bring divine retribution down upon mankind.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, DirectX 9.0c or above and Direct3D with 64MB or more of VRAM, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 91 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 47 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Jets'n'Guns Gold ($7.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Really Big Sky ($1.24, scores 43).
More about KAMUI
The main story runs 0.6 hours. Doing everything runs 5, 8.3 times as long.
The drop-off
84% 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
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 08:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Kamui is more or less a fangame of Rayforce, which is one of the coolest games ever made. Incredibly, Kamui also happens to be one of the coolest games ever made.
2 more reviews
I first came across this game in 1997. Back then, only a free demo was available, and it let you play just the first two stages. Apparently, the full game was later released at Comic Market (Comiket). But I was living in rural Japan at the time, and I didn't even know how to get to the event. It seems the game eventually made its way into shops, too, but none of the local computer stores carried it. Mail order was...
KAMUI is basically Taito's Rayforce, but combined with ChoRenSha 68k and other similar early bullet hell titles - faster-paced, more manic and with more, game-altering resources to manage. The big gimmick that distuinguishes it from either of its predecessors is the huge frickin' laser beam that you can use both as an offensive and as a defensive tool. Don't go in thinking that you'll 1CC the game in your first try...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
KAMUI scores 45/100 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/283820/kamuiReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.