Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)

Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)

Skip · Action · 2014

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$14.99Skip

Typical seasonal cut

$2.9980% offFair

Cost per hour▼
$4.84/hr
Reviews▼
81% of 8,682
Genre rank
Top 18% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
3.1h
To 100%
4.3h 1.4x the story
Achievements
19

Price and sales

Sales
64 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$2.99 February 2016
Sale every
51d last October 2026
Lowest now $14.84 at Fanaticalall-time low $1.94 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
5 now
Cheaper than
13% of its genre
Better reviewed
83% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

81% start to 5% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

64 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Trine Enchanted Edition ($14.99, scores 78) and BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition ($9.99, scores 63) both outscore it.

More about Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)

4 of the 647 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 1,039 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

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

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$4.84/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Refunds4 of 647 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

PROS - Cozy and charming art style. - Strong and pleasant atmosphere. - Beautiful, soft soundtrack. - Unique cultural and spiritual elements. - Simple puzzles that don't interrupt the progression. - More enjoyable when played in co-op. CONS - Sluggish and clunky controls. - Some platforming sections feel harder than they should because of the controls. - Solo play can feel less enjoyable. - Movement can occasionally...
AxellotlRecommendedafter 8.6hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I really enjoyed this one! The teamwork between Nuna & the fox was fun, I played alone but I'm sure playing with someone else would have been a blast too. I also loved that it's not just the game but also getting to learn about other cultures, which I always enjoy. I can't wait for the sequel!
🌙Moon_Child⁷💜Recommendedafter 11hAug 2026Read on Steam
I'm sorry but I really can't recommend this, It plays like a game that was made for co-op only and then at the last second they decided to add single player to it, but it just doesn't work. The AI for the second character is extremely bad, more than half of my deaths in this game were because the AI decided to jump in the water jump off a cliff or something stupid like that. I decided to give the DLC a chance (which...
Ech064Not recommendedafter 4.9hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Experience the epic journey of Nuna and Fox as they search for the source of an eternal blizzard that threatens the survival of everything they have ever known.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 240 GT or Radeon HD 6570, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) scores 46/100 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/295790/never-alone-kisima-ingitchuna
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Reviews 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 Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperUpper One Games
PublisherE-Line Media
GenreAction
Released2014
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements19