Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom
Skip · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 5, under the fair line, at $1.49.
- Length
- 17.3h 30.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.09/hr
- Reviews
- 58% of 508 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 85% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Shiness is an Action-RPG developed by indie development studio Enigami, which will let you travel in a captivating universe doomed to destruction ever since the fragmentation of the planet Mahera...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB, AMD Radeon HD 6950/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 76 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $1.49 at 85 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. On the same math Pine ($24.99, scores 34) and Evoland 2 ($19.99, scores 68) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom
Critics scored it 68, but players land 10 points lower at 58 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 17.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
34% start to 1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 11:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
i gave this game 6 hours, waiting for it to be enjoyable. combat is dull, with wonky camera. puzzles are so easy, you wonder what was the point of it. music gets repetitive real fast, especially in the first forest area. it had a background loop that repeated every 6 seconds... story... not captivating, but then again i'm a jaded 45 years old now. i did like the odd gag jokes here and there, esp. the saber- tooth...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Even for less than $2 it's so awful it's not worth the risk of anyone thinking you're a furry.
Played it a few years ago and liked it quite a lot. The story is sadly unfinished and the game is generally a bit buggy/sloppy in some feedback during combat. But the mechanics themselves with combos, area effects and parry meter are fun. Each character has various abilities that were also relevant outside of combat in puzzles and exploration. I feel this game could've been great with a bit more money thrown in it's...
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Cite this score
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom scores 5/100 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/366640/shiness-the-lightning-kingdomReviews 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.