9 Monkeys of Shaolin
Fair · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $4.88/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 75% ($4.99)
- Last discount ended
- 6 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 or equivalent / AMD Radeon HD 5570 or equivalent, 7 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The true rebirth of iconic beat 'em up genre in vein of old-school video games! As a simple Chinese fisherman Wei Cheng you have to avenge the death of your friends and family slaughtered in a pirate raid at your peaceful village.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in April 2025. It has been discounted 52 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 15 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Vellum ($19.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Rise of the Ronin ($49.99, scores 9).
71 from critics against 85 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 4 of the 409 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 142 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
86% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
The (local) co-op feels like an afterthought. Just a second puncher in the fights without any other interaction with the world. The story was kinda nice and I appreciate the native linux support and might recommend it, but I did not enjoy playing the game with a friend. Single player is fine ig.
Great game, but short and boring story. The combat makes up for it though definitely only pick this up on a sale as $26 full price for this is ridiculous would be more reasonable at $10
The combat style is quite good, the game is of a reasonable length, and co-op is more fun than playing alone.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
9 Monkeys of Shaolin scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/739080/9-monkeys-of-shaolinReviews 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 2.
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