Ichi
Fair · Strategy · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.5h 5.9h to 100%
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 666 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 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
Ichi is an easy to play but challenging one button puzzle game. Don't be deceived by the game simplistic look, it’s a braintwister for sure! Collect golden rings by rotating objects, using teleporters, breaking blocks and more.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
58 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. On the same math Pictopix ($6.99, scores 95) and Mini Metro ($9.99, scores 96) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Ichi
Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 168 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.5 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 2.4 times as long.
The drop-off
39% 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
Not so good in 2025: the servers are down so not only you can't access community levels but also you are unable to complete some of the achievements. Overall ok, but: * there are no settings so you are forced to play in a window of preset size (there is a workaround in the steam guides) * it looks somewhat cozy but you need to react quickly * there are no hints for the not so bright ones * only clicking is needed...
1 more review, not recommended
The online servers were shutdown 4 years ago. This means you cannot play or submit user-made levels anymore, essentially removing the main reason to play this game. The only levels available now are the default 60 included.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ichi scores 66/100 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/300300/ichiReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.