Rabi-Ribi
Worth it · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $17.99, a BANGER if it drops to $12.68.
- Length
- 11h
- Value
- $1.64/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Any DirectX 9.0 supported card, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Dodge bullets, missiles and lasers in battle as you wrap your head around that bunny girl costume! Combo away with your mighty Piko Hammer or spam various spells from afar with your fiery fairy friend. Explore and explode through Rabi-Rabi Island as you collect power-ups and uncover secrets...
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.39. That was June 2023. It has been discounted 88 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $12.68 BANGER line 74 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rain World ($24.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Celeste ($19.99, scores 76).
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On an 11-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 662 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 763 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 11 hours. Doing everything runs 33, 3.0 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 11 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
93% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On an 11-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
36 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This is a strange game to recommend because it has a presentation style that can easily turn people away in a sea of Metroidvanias that won't concern you with getting weird looks. If you can look past that, what you end up with is one of the most thrilling collections of boss battles I've ever experienced. An absolute plethora of unique, interesting and just spectacular patterns with plenty of difficulty tuning that...
I wanted to play this game more and more, but on the Hard difficulty level, it became a grind with zero progress. Overall, in short, it's one of the most fun games I ever played, and at the same time of the most annoying. Bullet Hell: This game is bullet hell, but the icy movements, MCs hitbox that is invisible outside of focus mode that is hyper uncomfortable to use, and for some reason delayed jumps after landing...
Do not let the cute artstyle fool you, this is a brutal, merciless game that will test all the limits of your dexterity and precision, and at some point you might hate it for that. But the wine of victory never tastes better than when it's earned through blood and tears. The story is silly, cute and funny, don't expect anything deep from it. But that's precisely why it works, it matches the tone of the game...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Rabi-Ribi scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/400910/rabi-ribiThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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