Way of the Passive Fist
Skip · Action · 2018
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$14.99Skip
On its price record
$7.40Fair
- Length
- 4h 7.6h to 100%
- Value
- $3.75/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 225 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.40 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Way of the Passive Fist is a unique and colorful arcade brawler. Parry, Dodge and Dash to outwit and outlast your enemies on a desolate planet ruled by raiders, mutants and fanatical sun worshipers. It's a new kind of tactical fighting in the licensed arcade brawler for the 90s cartoon you wish existed.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Geforce 8800 GTX / Radeon HD 2900 XT or better, 123 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
33 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 23 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fraymakers ($19.99, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats Loot Hero DX ($2.99, scores 35).
More about Way of the Passive Fist
Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
61% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Imagine if I told you that there was a beat em up with no punch, kick, or jump buttons and your only means of attack is to defend against all the enemies. Sounds pretty terrible, right, a beat em up with no elbaorate combos, special moves, weapons, or anything else you have to come to expect from the genre. Thats what way of the passive fist is, an old style beat em up with no attack button, and it is amazing!! If...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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Interesting concept for a game, but too many frustrating elements are making me bounce off of it. While the game promotes that you don't have to fight enemies, that is a lie. The only way to beat certain enemies and bosses is to fill up your combo meter to the point that you can unleash an attack. The problem is that you lose this meter if you are hit, or you push a counter move and the enemy has stopped doing their...
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Cite this score
Way of the Passive Fist scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/625680/way-of-the-passive-fistReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.