Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (Steam Game) Steam logo

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Header Image
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Header Image

Shantae embarks on her first full HD adventure! When a mysterious crime wave sweeps Sequin Land, it’s up to Half-Genie Hero Shantae to save the day! Use Shantae’s devastating Hair-Whip Attack to send monsters flying, or Belly Dance to transform her into more powerful forms!

Release DateDec 20, 2016
Price$ 19.99  Top 10%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)90.6% (very positive) Top 25% / 90.5%  Top 25%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)86.4% Top 10% / 86.6%  Top 10%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)1.9K  Top 10% / 2.4K  Top 10%
Curators84 reviews  Top 10%
Median Play Time12.8 hours  Top 15%
Play Time per Dollar38 minutes
Followers22K  Top 5%
Owners± 149.4K  Top 15%
Copies Sold± 95.7K  Top 10%
Gross Revenue ($)± 1.4M  Top 10%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Shantae: Half-Genie Hero steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

Here you can see Shantae: Half-Genie Hero's Steam rating and reviews between December 2016 and December 2023. Steam's rating oscillates between 95.4% (December 2016) and 90.4% (March 2022).

With 2.4K reviews Top 10%, Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is an AAA level success. The chart is compatible with a long tailed distribution, which suggests there was a good visibility at launch but that it was not followed by significant updates or discounts.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Shantae: Half-Genie Hero and the proportion of players they represent.

This donut graph displays the languages of Shantae: Half-Genie Hero's Steam reviews. The most popular language is English (62%), followed by Spanish - Spain (7%). The player's languages are well diversified, with 25 different languages appearing in the reviews. The game is available in 6 languages. Unless the game has a lot of dialogues, translating is usually not a lot of work compared to completing a game, therefore adding more translations is generally recommended.

Time Played

Chart displaying Shantae: Half-Genie Hero percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, comparing positive and negative reviews. The time in game is not bad at all, with 23 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews median playtime closely matches the median for positive reviews, meaning that there is no major difference between the players' experiences and the reviews probably reflect personal preferences more than anything else. The negative review time is high (median is 10 hours), it can be a sign that Shantae: Half-Genie Hero crashes after a while or becomes too repetitive or difficult towards the end. The Players' feedback section might give some insight about that.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Amazing art and presentation
  • Great color choices in the foreground
  • Fantastic music
  • Smart level design
  • Great boss fights
  • Good humor
  • Great enemy variety
  • Good difficulty for casual players
  • Flawless performance
  • Fantastic character design
  • Game is too easy compared to previous Shantaes
  • Short length
  • Too much backtracking and fetch quests
  • Poor sound design
  • Genie sub-plot doesn't work well
  • Poor keyboard configuration
  • Missing sound sliders
  • Some transformations are annoying
  • Too much repetitive gameplay
  • Short playtime compared to similar-priced games

These advantages and disadvantages are not meant to provide a fair assessment of the game, but to help developers identify potential improvements. The game's rating of 90.6%  Top 25% should be taken into account when assessing them.

Please take this list with a grain of salt, as this is an AI generated list based on a small sample of Shantae: Half-Genie Hero's review data provided by Steam. Additionally, remember that not all issues need to be fixed, sometimes the best approach is to communicate better to manage the player's expectations.

Games With Similar Tags

Rabi-Ribi LogoWitchcrafty LogoTouhou Luna Nights LogoDOOMBLADE LogoMomodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight LogoCurse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils LogoMilli & Greg LogoAlice Escaped! LogoRecord of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth LogoWarriOrb: Prologue LogoThe Witch & The 66 Mushrooms LogoBlast Brigade vs. the Evil Legion of Dr. Cread LogoWonder Boy: Asha in Monster World LogoLamp Chronicle Logo

More Like This

Hollow Knight LogoTEVI LogoDead Cells LogoRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart LogoBloons TD 6 LogoCuphead LogoThe Last Faith LogoWitchSpring R LogoSkul: The Hero Slayer LogoOri and the Will of the Wisps LogoLittle Nightmares LogoCeleste LogoGeometry Dash LogoPizza Tower LogoRain World LogoBlasphemous LogoBloodstained: Ritual of the Night LogoSlime Rancher LogoOri and the Blind Forest LogoSANABI LogoLaika: Aged Through Blood LogoBorn of Bread LogoMuse Dash LogoA Hat in Time LogoTrinity Fusion LogoENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights LogoAfterimage LogoYOHANE THE PARHELION -BLAZE in the DEEPBLUE- LogoShovel Knight: Treasure Trove LogoCARRION Logo