Akane the Kunoichi
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $2.99.
- Length
- 1.8h
- Value
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews
- 49% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: Direct3D 11 support (feature level 10_0). Windows only.
You are Akane, a Kunoichi ninja secretely loving her master Goro, a noble samurai. One day Goro is kidnapped by the evil Hiromi - you have to rescue him, but it won't be an easy task!
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
December 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.59. It has been discounted 63 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Kaze and the Wild Masks ($9.99, scores 63) and Trine Enchanted Edition ($14.99, scores 78) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data puts 30 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 142 reviews written there were positive, against 49 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
1.8 hours to finish it, 4 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
41% start to 30% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Akane the Kunoichi scores 2/100 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/291130/akane-the-kunoichiThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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