Akane
Worth it · Roguelike · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT or equivalent, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
2121 A.D, with no escape options, Akane prepares for her final battle in the rain-soaked neon streets of Mega-Tokyo. Akane is an arena arcade slasher. Take out as many yakuza as possible, slashing and shooting in a one-hit-one-kill fight to the death.
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
It has never been cheaper than $1.24. That was May 2021. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 53 in the 8 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, UBERMOSH ($0.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Katana ZERO ($14.99, scores 78).
3 of the 405 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, 92 percent of the 830 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
At 5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
59% start to 5% 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
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 12:56 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is just the best damn game. Challenging and super rewarding, balanced and fair, satisfying when you get it right, but not infuriating when you get it wrong. Simple but extremely replayable. Addictive, even. And damn, I got it for £1.99 on sale. Best money I've ever spent. (A note for Mac users - this runs on my M5 MacBook Pro running Tahoe 26.6.1. So the banner saying it's not compatible may be misleading...
Akane is a unique game that scratches that itch for mechanical perfection and it will demand mechanical perfection from you. The music matches the rhythm and feel of the game but it can get a little repetitive in long sessions. (but you can always turn it off and play your own!) The gameplay is difficult but not overcomplex, genuinely super satisfying once you get the grasp of it. Being able to create and express...
I was pleasantly surprised by how fun and enthralling the gameplay loop is. The mechanics are simple, easy to understand and quite fair, the soundtrack's nice (except for that one beepy song, I'm sorry, but it blows) and it's got the "oh I bet I can go further this time" hook these sorts of games live and die by figured out. A nice bit of progression, too, and some decent variety in the unlocks. I've read some...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Akane scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/884260/akaneReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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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