Bayonetta
Worth it · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $10.25.
- Length
- 11.6h
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon HD6950 / GeForce GTX 570 (VRAM 768MB), 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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
March 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 58 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. 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 7 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $10.25. The record reaches that level 56 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, 嗜血印 Bloody Spell ($24.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition ($29.99, scores 52).
12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 3,381 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.
The drop-off
77% 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
109 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
At this point, I'm really sad. We used to play these games, dreaming about how much cooler the ones 10 years down the line could be.
I got all achievements back then in Xbox 360 and I did it again, I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH STILL. Pros: The combat is STILL ONE OF THE BEST. There are SO many moves, techniques, combos, items that MIX into your combat, to destroy your enemies that I was constantly having fun just experimenting. Bayonetta herself is just SO COOL. The way she summons demons through her hair? OH MY GOD. SHE IS HER. I also really like...
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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Bayonetta scores 73/100 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/460790/bayonettaThe 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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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