Wenjia

Wenjia

Skip · Short indie · 2018

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$8.99Skip

On its price record

$4.07Fair

Length
1.8h 3.2h to 100%
Value
$4.99/hr
Reviews
79% of 374 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.07 or less.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2457 days ago.

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

Holding it back
Value$4.99/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 78% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 47 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Wenjia is a 2D platform game with puzzle-solving elements. Players can freely travel between two realms (the material world and the energy world), each of them with different challenges and obstacles. Players must utilize both realms’ mechanisms to reach their final goal.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GT 730 OR Radeon HD 4830, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 14 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 51 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 351 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 26 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Teslagrad ($9.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats One Gun Guy ($0.79, scores 23).

More about Wenjia

Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 114 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 47 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

85% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Wenjia is a fun platformer. You play as a cat that enjoys jumping and have the power to pass your material body between two different realms, it sounds big but all it does actually is making a climbable platform or a wind to appear here and there so you can progress. I didn't follow the story but I guess it is ok. There are orbs that you can collect for extra in each level, and your rank is based on collecting them...
JulymorningRecommendedafter 1.3hOct 2020Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It is short but fun. It has some fun mechanics but I feel like more could have been done with it.
OmikronRecommendedafter 1.6hApr 2020Read on Steam
It's a visually nice game and the mechanics work well, but ultimately I just found it much too frustrating and wasn't making progress fast enough. The tolerance for timing errors is so low in some sequences that, when combined with too infrequently placed respawn points during those more difficult parts, the game turned into a peculiar combination of aggravation (dying at the same spot over and over again) and...
JasonNot recommendedafter 1.2h12 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Wenjia scores 42/100 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/933450/wenjia
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperLuoriver studio-洛神游戏工作室
PublisherWhiteLakeStudio
GenreShort indie
Released2018
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13