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Discover the true power of rice in Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin! Take on hordes of demons in side-scrolling combat to reclaim the land as Sakuna, a spoiled harvest goddess banished to a dangerous island. Then, return to your mountain village and tend a field full of glorious rice.

Release DateNov 10, 2020
Price$ 29.99  Top 3%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)93.1% (very positive) Top 15% / 92.7%  Top 15%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)89.6% Top 4% / 89.4%  Top 4%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)4K  Top 5% / 4.6K  Top 5%
Curators129 reviews  Top 4%
Median Play Time35.2 hours  Top 4%
Play Time per Dollar1.2 hour  Top 20%
Followers38.4K  Top 3%
Owners± 217.7K  Top 10%
Copies Sold± 157.2K  Top 10%
Gross Revenue ($)± 4.3M  Top 4%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This graph shows Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin's Steam rating and reviews between November 2020 and December 2023. Steam's rating is very stable, varying from 93.7% (February 2021) to 92.7% (November 2023).

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is an AAA level success, with 4.6K reviews Top 5%. The chart looks like a long tail distribution, which sometimes means that the marketing was concentrated on the game launch and then stopped, and that no major update or discounts followed.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut chart shows Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin's review languages. The most popular language is Simplified Chinese (30%), followed by English (22%). There is a healthy diversity in the review languages, with 23 different languages represented. The game is translated in 6 languages. Considering that, unless the game is text-heavy, adding translations is not a lot of work compared to making a game, it is often a good idea to translate the game in many languages.

Time Played

Chart displaying Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time played in Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time played is great, reaching 57 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 4 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. Some Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin players left negative reviews after playing for a long time (more than 34 hours for the top 20%), it can be a sign that a part of the fanbase was displeased about the evolution of the game and decided to review bomb it. The Players' feedback section might help understanding the issue.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Stunning graphics and animations
  • Detailed, realistic, and educational rice farming simulator
  • Great variety of tasks
  • Well-made and in-depth core gameplay systems
  • Exciting freeform combat
  • Rewarding and engaging farming sim gameplay
  • Meaningful stories and character developments
  • Beautiful visual style and overall pleasant mood
  • Top notch voice acting
  • Fascinating music
  • Stiff and awkward character controls
  • Repetitive and grinding gameplay
  • Bad level designs
  • Difficulty in optimisation optimisation
  • Boring and useless mechanics
  • Poor variety of enemies
  • Bad AI of enemies
  • Irrelevant night mode
  • Uninteresting story and characters
  • Endless game length

It's important to understand that this list of positives and negatives is not an unbiased evaluation of the game. Its purpose is to support developers in understanding what their players want. The game's score of 93.1%  Top 15% should be considered while evaluating them.

Take into account that list was generated using AI on a small sample of Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin's Steam review data, it is not meant to be exhaustive. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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