Akin
Skip · Short indie · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.5h
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 3D graphics card with 512Mb, 61 MB of storage. Windows only.
In this puzzle, you only have to draw one continuous line. There are 96 puzzles on "Normal"-mode and 96 puzzles in "Time"-mode. Each puzzles can have many different solutions. This is game is Steamworks integrated with achivements, badges, trading cards and more.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.28. That was December 2022. 72 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 51 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Oik 3 ($0.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Wordle ($30.62, scores 30).
This site sampled 357 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 169 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.5 hours. Doing everything runs 5, 2.1 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
6% 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
What players say
A game like this without an undo button is a crime... Anyway, this is a minimalistic puzzle game with a very simple concept: draw a single, continuous line to fill up the entire board. A couple of additional mechanics are introduced along the way, but it does lack variety and it gets a bit repetitive after a while. The timed levels seem to be a good incentive at first. However, they are simply irritating when you...
I guessed wife borsch she guessed cabbage soup. I guessed cabbage soup she guessed water. Now we both sit hungry but enlightened.
The amount of times I've played a really cool, interesting puzzle game that's made me feel satisfied for solving it's levels that was ruined by a stupid, arbitrary timer mode is sadly a number that rapidly increases every few puzzle games or so, and this is one such game. I was having a blast working out Akin's levels and working my way through, feeling proud of my accomplishments and being impressed at myself for...
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Cite this score
Akin scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/487370/akinReviews 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 1.
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