Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds
Worth it · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.04.
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $1.22/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 10 compatible video card, 27 GB of storage. Windows only.
Romance 12 handsome warriors and the samurai of the Shinsengumi, uncover their dark secrets, and conquer your demons in this historical fantasy visual novel! Your narrative choices unlock multiple branching storylines and 30 different endings!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $4.49. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 57 in the 9 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $7.04 BANGER line 48 times.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Finding Paradise ($9.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Incantation ($9.34, scores 38).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 381 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
8.2 hours to finish it, 42 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
84% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On an 8.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
14 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 03:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
you get white hair red eyes, you get white hair red eyes, everyone gets white hair red eyes
I wake up. I think of this game. I go to work. I think of this game. I end work. I play this game. I savor every word and every moment like a fine sip of expensive wine. I go to bed (late). I think of this game. To say that this is the magnum opus of Otomes is an understatement. The storytelling is absolutely genius, woven together in a complex web of history, characters and emotions. Without spoiling anything, in...
after doing everything i could in this game, i can safely say im buying the second one :D! Saito and Heisuke are amazing, i love pretty much every route and how the stories are set up for the next game! i do wish there was more to the romance in this one but im sure there will be more in the next game
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds scores 79/100 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/589530/hakuoki-kyoto-windsReviews 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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