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Akane the Kunoichi cover art

Akane the Kunoichi

Haruneko Entertainment · 2014-05-02

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: May 28, 2011 (Xbox 360), May 02, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 13, 2012 (iOS)

You are Akane, a Kunoichi ninja secretely loving her master Goro, a noble samurai. One day Goro is kidnapped by the evil Hiromi - you have to rescue him, but it won't be an easy task!

Akane the Kunoichi is an Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2014, priced at $0.74, with an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (49% of 756 reviews).

0
playing now
49%
positive of 756 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.74
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Akane the Kunoichi is a platform game developed by independent Italian studio Haruneko. It was released for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Indie Games service in 2011 and was ported as a budget title for Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone 7, and iOS.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 17% of 27,912 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 19k–45k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 756 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2015-12-22) · bundled 10×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720162026Week of 2016-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.592015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $1.012015-05-25 — best price $0.742015-11-02 — best price $2.992015-12-01 — best price $2.992016-01-04 — best price $2.992016-03-21 — best price $0.742016-07-04 — best price $2.992016-11-23 — best price $1.012017-06-22 — best price $0.742017-11-22 — best price $1.492018-04-30 — best price $1.012018-07-05 — best price $2.992018-11-22 — best price $0.742019-02-04 — best price $1.012019-10-28 — best price $1.012019-12-19 — best price $1.012020-04-21 — best price $2.192020-06-25 — best price $0.742020-11-25 — best price $1.492021-02-11 — best price $0.742021-12-22 — best price $0.742022-10-24 — best price $0.742023-02-06 — best price $0.742023-06-12 — best price $0.742023-09-04 — best price $0.742024-01-15 — best price $1.012024-04-22 — best price $1.012024-07-15 — best price $1.012024-10-07 — best price $1.012025-03-13 — best price $0.742025-05-19 — best price $0.742025-07-28 — best price $0.742025-09-29 — best price $0.742025-12-08 — best price $0.742026-01-19 — best price $0.742026-03-19 — best price $0.742026-07-13 — best price $0.742026-08-24 — best price $0.74
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1312026-05-31 — 6 pageviews2026-06-04 — 13 pageviews2026-06-08 — 9 pageviews2026-06-12 — 9 pageviews2026-06-16 — 5 pageviews2026-06-20 — 2 pageviews2026-06-24 — 3 pageviews2026-06-28 — 7 pageviews2026-07-02 — 7 pageviews2026-07-06 — 11 pageviews2026-07-10 — 6 pageviews2026-07-14 — 5 pageviews2026-07-18 — 2 pageviews2026-07-22 — 4 pageviews2026-07-26 — 7 pageviews2026-07-30 — 4 pageviews2026-08-03 — 4 pageviews2026-08-07 — 6 pageviews2026-08-11 — 2 pageviews2026-08-15 — 4 pageviews2026-08-19 — 2 pageviews2026-08-23 — 11 pageviews2026-08-27 — 8 pageviews2026-08-31 — 1 pageviews2026-09-04 — 4 pageviews2026-09-08 — 3 pageviews2026-09-12 — 5 pageviews2026-09-16 — 5 pageviews2026-09-20 — 6 pageviews2026-09-24 — 5 pageviews2026-09-28 — 9 pageviews2026-10-02 — 6 pageviews2026-10-06 — 6 pageviews2026-10-09 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
40.8%
earned "My first Charming Lost Kimono"
20.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,74917%7

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DAnimeIndieNinjaActionCasualAdventurePlatformerSingleplayerPixel Graphics

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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