Rakuen

Rakuen

Worth it · Other · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $12.17.

Length
8.2h
Value
$1.83/hr
Reviews
96% positive
It needs 19% off ($12.17) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
8.2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
9.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.83
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
96%
5,933 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
84
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1024x768 High Color +, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

A hospitalized Boy comes to terms with his own story by traveling with his Mom to a beautiful fantasy world; ultimately helping his fellow patients find closure by walking a mile in their shoes.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews96% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement27% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Value$1.83/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length8.2 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds0 of 419 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in May 2022. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 61 in the 9 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $12.17 BANGER line 20 times.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Meg's Monster ($10.49, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Underhero ($14.99, scores 65).

The press gave it 84; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 419 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 171 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

43% start to 27% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 00:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Rakuen scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/559210/rakuen
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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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+12
Critics
84
Players
96
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 5,933 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperLaura Shigihara
PublisherLaura Shigihara
GenreOther
Released2017
Achievements15