Akane the Kunoichi
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews▼
- 49% of 757
- Genre rank
- Top 96% Action
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.8h
- To 100%
- 4h 2.2x the story
- Finish
- 30% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 7
Price and sales
- Sales
- 65 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.59 December 2015
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 74% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 1% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
41% start to 30% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 65 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 74 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 74) and Trine Enchanted Edition ($14.99, scores 78) both outscore it.
More about Akane the Kunoichi
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 18. 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 18 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Please note: This is the second iteration of this review following an update and comment from the developer. However, it is not overly different to the first. ---- I purchased this game due to the premise - an anime style ninja platformer (if that makes sense). However, it was a little bit underwhelming and disappointing. Gameplay is pretty much how you would expect your normal platformer - it is nothing special...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Gameplay feels like an old movie where the heroine keeps losing balance, and the graphics look like they're from the 1990s. Yet I still smile because it's oddly fun.
Akane the Kunoichi. Some tribute to the classical Shinobi-like NES games, with the heroine running those walls and throwing endless kunai darts into rogue ninjas... All for saving her beloved. Even the music is a tribute to those old times, and I really recommend for all lovers of 8-bit music to evaluate the track from the last location. You know, Power Blade-style. Now, I'm not a connoisseur for platforming games...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: Direct3D 11 support (feature level 10_0). Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Akane the Kunoichi scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/291130/akane-the-kunoichiReviews 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 Nov 2, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.