Kiai Resonance

Kiai Resonance

Skip · Action · 2015

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$4.99Skip

On its price record

$1.91Fair

Length
0.9h 7h to 100%
Value
$5.54/hr
Reviews
79% of 221 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.91 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 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

Holding it back
Value$5.54/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 77% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 10 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

About the game

One strike can end it all. Step into multiplayer samurai duels where precision, timing, and skill decide who survives. Hone your mastery through deadly challenges.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 164 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

50 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 26 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 73 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Toribash (free, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Absolver ($29.99, scores 22).

More about Kiai Resonance

Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 62 percent of everything written about it.

0.9 hours to finish it, 7 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 7.8 times the campaign.

The drop-off

55% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Highly recommending this game in 2025. If you've ever tried out any sports or activities that required instant and anticipatory action but struggled with overthinking, give this game a try. If you hesitate even for a moment, you will lose. If you think, you will lose. Real-world fighting philosophies and tactics translate almost seamlessly to the controls which allows you to actually engage your opponent with the...
AncientFern08Recommendedafter 3.5hOct 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Kiai Resonance scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/360450/kiai-resonance
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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 Sep 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAbsorb Reality
PublisherAbsorb Reality
GenreAction
Released2015
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12