BAKERU
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 11.3h 17.8h to 100%
- Value
- $3.54/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 409 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $22.69 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
Bakeru's adventure begins in this Japan-esque Wild Action Game!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 750Ti, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 17 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Upturned ($9.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Asterix & Obelix XXL: Romastered ($19.99, scores 28).
More about BAKERU
Of the 322 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026.
At 11.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
93% start to 4% 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
What players say
This has a very classic PS2-era platformer vibe to it. It's wonderful to control, it's a delight to behold, and has so much content to it! Reached a point and thought "damn that game was short" just for the devs to reveal a ton more stuff to do. What cheeky rascals they are xoxo
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
BAKERU is a delightful game presumably aimed at the "Shonen" audience of young boys, but which anyone of any age can enjoy. It makes for an excellent action-platformer collectathon generally, but is an explosion of pure "Japanese-ness" that weebs will especially adore. Boiling it down, there are basically 3 core things that make BAKERU stand out: 1) We Have Ganbare Goemon At Home: Basically, since it looks unlikely...
I bought this on suggestion that it'd have somewhat of a similar energy to Goemon, and while it does, the gameplay doesn't feel as fun as it has with N64 Mystical Ninja. Not a bad grab at deep sale and there's A LOT to go through, but at least for me it started to feel repetitive around 3 hour mark so I got bored.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
BAKERU scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2969380/bakeruReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.