Ninja Tycoon
Skip · Strategy · 2018
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $0.99.
- Length
- 3.4h 4.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.29/hr
- Reviews
- 72% of 438 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 80% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Recruit Ninjas, Hire Workers, build your base, train your Ninjas and send them on Missions!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Radeon 4850 or equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 90 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 43 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre. On the same math Blueprint Tycoon ($0.74, scores 60) and Game Corp DX ($0.74, scores 76) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Ninja Tycoon
Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 125 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
85% start to 9% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Ninja Tycoon is a small-scale management and simulation game developed and published by Endless Loop Studios that invites players to take control of a growing ninja village and guide it from a humble settlement into a dominant force. The premise is immediately appealing, combining the familiar appeal of tycoon-style base building with a light fantasy take on feudal Japan and ninja culture. Rather than focusing on...
2 more reviews
Its exactly what you think it is. fun for a few hours. Is it amazing no, does it have mind bending graphics, no. Worth $1 for sure
Kind of a buggy mess. I think I got this super cheap. It strikes me as someones first game. I'm only giving it the thumbs up to not bag on a small developer but know what you're getting into before you buy, even on sale.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ninja Tycoon scores 33/100 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/779330/ninja-tycoonReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.