Mr. Saitou
Worth it · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $11.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.39.
- Length
- 1.9h 2.5h to 100%
- Value
- $6.31/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 509 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.39 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $5.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each 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
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About the game
A short game about an average white-collar worker who struggles to find meaning in a life full of constant overtime and isolation. After an accident lands him in the hospital, Mr. Saitou is spirited away to a strange fantasy world where an unexpected friend takes him on a life-changing adventure.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 12 or OpenGL 2.1, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 19 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 12 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.39. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Meg's Monster ($14.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Garden Story ($19.99, scores 64).
More about Mr. Saitou
Steam's global achievement data puts 64 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 320 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 126 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
81% start to 64% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
A wonderful little story. Nice and light hearted, but still one shot me anyway. Too real. God bless you all.
2 more reviews
Silly and sentimental, I like the fantasy world and broader implications of the story.
I feel like games like this often get overlooked for their simplicity or their lack of 'challenging yourself'. It's quite frustrating to me, as games like this really do take a deep dive in what gaming can be as an art form. This game is short, cute, wholesome, and has the slightest touch of bittersweet melancholy. The puzzles aren't all that difficult, but they still make you go "Aha". They also don't need to be...
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Cite this score
Mr. Saitou scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/628740/mr-saitouReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.