Bayonetta

Bayonetta

Worth it · Action · 2017

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$5.9970% offBANGER

Cost per hour▼
$1.72/hr
ReviewsS
92% of 33,004
Critics
90 players 2 higher
Genre rank
Top 2% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 49% off ($10.29) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
11.6h
To 100%
41.8h 3.6x the story
Achievements
50

Price and sales

Sales
59 on record
Typical cut
70% off
Steam low
$4.99 March 2019
Sale every
47d last October 2026
Lowest now $5.59 at Fanaticalall-time low $3.75 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
138 now
Recent reviews
94% 30 days
Cheaper than
6% of its genre
Better reviewed
98% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

77% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

59 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $10.29. The record reaches that level 57 times.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, 嗜血印 Bloody Spell ($2.49, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut ($14.99, scores 42).

More about Bayonetta

13 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 3,399 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 11.6 hours. Doing everything runs 42, 3.6 times as long.

At 11.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 24 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.72/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds13 of 800 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

What players say

had this game on 360 as a kid but never really played it too much, this game is awesome. once you get a hang of the controls it feels great. keyboard mouse felt a little strange, so play this with a controller. even 20 hours in there was still so much to improve at and to really master the combat of this game it probably takes 100+ hours to even get decent at stringing combos and accurately dodge offsetting but the...
Topshagger21Recommendedafter 40h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
I had my mother buy this for me when it first came out on the Xbox360 because I was a naughty little boy, and the tall, beautiful witch made my teenager brain tingle.
Alive DeadmanRecommendedafter 5.2hOct 2026Read on Steam
Been playing this on my Steam Frame with zero issues, the defaults selected by Steam work wonderfully. Xbox 360 glyphs are shown instead of Steam Frame controller glyphs, so be ready for that.
AiodensghostRecommendedafter 2.1hOct 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

PlatinumGames’ universally acclaimed action masterpiece finally comes to PC. Experience the over-the-top stylish action in 60fps at unlocked HD resolutions. The definitive way to play: being bad never felt so good.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon HD6950 / GeForce GTX 570 (VRAM 768MB), 20 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Bayonetta scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/460790/bayonetta
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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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+2
Critics90
Players92
Metacritic critics · 33,004 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperPlatinumGames
PublisherSEGA
GenreAction
Released2017
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements50