Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition
Fair · Action · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.5h
- Value
- $4.00/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The ultimate edition of Shantae: Half-Genie Hero comes with all of the previously released DLC, Modes, and Costumes in one epic collection! Includes an exclusive Blue Bathing Suit for use in Beach Mode!
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 $14.99, set in June 2021. It has been discounted 29 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 13 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($7.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure ($19.99, scores 42).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 369 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
79% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 12:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This franchise came out during a period of my life where I completely stepped away from video games because I was busy doing other stuff, so I never got to play them in their original versions and I just vaguely knew they were a solid series of games in the style of old-school platformers from the NES and SNES days. So this is my first Shantae game and I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised. It plays like a classic...
I'm writing this as I am finishing up the more annoying achievements in the game (like getting all win screens from the extra modes) Ok so, HGH, I'd consider it the black sheep of the series, it's still great fun as a standalone game, but if you're more familiar with the other Shantae games, that's where I think this game does a few things worse than Risky's Revenge or Pirate's Curse, and if you are planning on...
Mediocre platformer, just like the rest of the franchise. The only thing that sustains it is the eye catching character designs (and the way Shantae wiggles her butt while crouching). The rest? Bad stage design, terrible humor (the franchise has never been funny no matter how they try) and barely there character personalities. The best thing I can say? They at least made the final dungeon in this one not as trash...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition scores 50/100 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/764300/shantae-half-genie-hero-ultimate-editionReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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