The friends of Ringo Ishikawa
Fair · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.7h
- Value
- $1.95/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 317 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A highschool gang leader Ringo Ishikawa trying to live through his last autumn before graduation. With his best friends.
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 $5.84, set in October 2021. 87 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 61 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FIGHT KNIGHT ($19.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Dex ($19.99, scores 62).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 5 of the 557 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 400 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.7 hours; clearing it takes 16, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
13% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 7.7-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 14:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is a distinctive combination of side-scrolling street fighting, RPG progression, open-ended exploration, and everyday life simulation. Developed and published by yeo, it follows Ringo Ishikawa, a Japanese high-school gang leader approaching graduation alongside his closest friends. What initially looks like a retro beat 'em up soon reveals itself as something much more reflective...
In all my years of playing video games, watching movies, reading books or seeing plays, very few of them have ever actually made me stop to think about my own life like this game did. Something about it left me stun locked. Maybe it's the overall aesthetic, maybe it's the chill music that accompanies your experience throughout, maybe it was the ending that leaves you asking more questions than when you started it...
SCHOOL IS LIKE A DYING BIG OTHER: the action takes place in a Japanese school of the 90s, where rigid hierarchy, codes of honor, and respect for elders prevail. But this world is already dying.: teachers are powerless, students are losing interest, old gangs are breaking up. The school here is a Symbolic order in agony. It's a Big Other one that doesn't work anymore. The rules still exist, but they are empty...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa scores 63/100 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/846110/the-friends-of-ringo-ishikawaReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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