Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom

Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom

Fair · RPG · 2018

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 84% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$59.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$9.5984% offFair

Cost per hour▼
$1.55/hr
Reviews▼
83% of 11,181
Critics
81 players 2 higher
Genre rank
Top 12% RPG

Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour

Watch this gameOne alert at $9.59 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
38.8h
To 100%
93.2h 2.4x the story
Achievements
63

Price and sales

Sales
67 on record
Typical cut
84% off
Steam low
$8.99 June 2021
Sale every
44d last October 2026
Lowest now $8.99 at Fanaticalall-time low $7.35 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
35 now
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
84% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

79% start to 1% 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

It has been discounted 67 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 84 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 2 days ago.

Its score sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen ($29.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas ($14.99, scores 49).

More about Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom

4 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 447 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 38.8 hours; clearing it takes 93, which is 2.4 times the campaign.

Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 2 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
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$1.55/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds4 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

I have over two hundred games in my Steam Library and this is the only one I have buyers remorse over. It is a completely different game than the first. I don't understand why it is even called Ni No Kuni when it has nothing to do with the first one. They changed everything - I want my creature collecting back! I wish I had not played over two hours so I could refund it but I tried to give it multiple chances and...
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 5.5h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Whoever had the brilliant idea to make the dodge button and the jump button overlap should be fired
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 39hOct 2026Read on Steam
Ni no Kuni II is a good game, but I have to admit that I started playing it several years ago, got bored, and stopped. What I didn't realize was that I was already in Chapter 9, the final chapter. When I decided to return years later, I was surprised by how far I had gotten, so I decided to finish it. I haven't played the first game, but I know many people compare the two and say the first one is better. Maybe it...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 57hOct 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Join the young king Evan as he sets out on an epic quest to found a new kingdom and, with the help of some new friends, unite his world, saving its people from a terrible evil.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 260x (VRAM2GB or higher / VRAM2GB以上), 40 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/589360/ni-no-kuni-ii-revenant-kingdom
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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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+2
Critics81
Players83
Metacritic critics · 11,181 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperLEVEL5 Inc.
PublisherBANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
GenreRPG
Released2018
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements63