Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun
Fair · Short indie · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.4h 16.1h to 100%
- Value
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 398 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Dive into an epic story of honor and courage and help a Geisha and a Samurai save the day.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 86 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zuma Deluxe ($4.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats You Must Build A Boat ($4.99, scores 56).
More about Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
26% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
one of green sauce's early m3s from 2015, with a rotatable board not seen in many of their other games ( dreams of a geisha , their first game might be the only one, plus the season match series by another dev). it also offers swap, pop and chain options, another thing that got forgotten about (it's in their other early game, joan of arc ), these days they just reskin the same simplified m3 thing over and over. or...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
One of the games ever made! This is a match-3 game that doesn't pretend it is a visual novel or RPG. As with many of these type of solitaire card and dice and match-3 games, objects are often frozen or boxed up, and an extra match in the immediate area is required. If you find this tedious or annoying, it has an easy 'relaxed' mode letting you make unlimited moves. Not worth full price-- it's a rather no-frills...
Lost progress & profile after 3,5 hours of game play back in 2021. Checked the forum and the problem still persists today. Don't waste your money on this unfinished, buggy product!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun 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/339160/tales-of-the-orient-the-rising-sunReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.