Mini Ghost
BANGER · Action · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Length
- 3.3h 3.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.60/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 422 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
"Mini Ghost" is a mini metroidvania in the 80's MSX art style and gameplay. It's the mini prequel of Ghost 1.0.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, 256MB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce) There can be problems with INTEL graphic cards. Windows only.
The value story
33 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($1.19, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Kaze and the Wild Masks ($9.99, scores 74).
$4.82 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Mini Ghost
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
29% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Mini Ghost is the prequel to the Ghost 1.0 video game, but made with retro graphics from the 80s-90s. Fun, short and cheap. I have played it perfectly on the Steamdeck
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Classic metroidvania goodness, the gameplay is very simple, but very fun as well. Because of my dumbness i may have complicated the game for myself a little bit ( i always destroy those healing robot, didn't realize they can heal you until very late in the game), A good and short game for anyone looking for some MSX or NES gameplay.
As a massive fan of Ghost 1.0 i was excited to jump into an 8bit version of that game, BUT i have to admit i hatebeat this game! I basically was stubborn and forced myself to finish the game, out of sheer dumbness. Im an 80s kid, and i still play alot of retro games constantly, and i love Metroidvanias. However the difficulty of this game was akin to the NES era. For the price its fair i guess, but the difficulty is...
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Cite this score
Mini Ghost scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/586880/mini-ghostReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.