Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
Fair · RPG · 2015
The verdict
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A BANGER at $6.73, only fair at $19.99.
- Length
- 8.1h
- Value
- $2.47/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Embark on an all-new adventure with Shantae, the hair-whipping belly dancing genie. After losing her magic, Shantae teams up with the nefarious pirate Risky Boots in order to save Sequin Land from a curse.
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
The value story
October 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. It has been discounted 48 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 12 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 17 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $6.73. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Super Panda Adventures ($4.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Owlboy ($19.99, scores 51).
1 of the 364 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 129 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
72% start to 2% 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
Players
About 5 players at once, as of Jun 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/345820/shantae-and-the-pirate-s-curseReviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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