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BAKERU

Good-Feel Co., Ltd. · Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. · 2024-09-03

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Nov 30, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 03, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Bakeru's adventure begins in this Japan-esque Wild Action Game!

94%
positive of 409 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$15.99
steam price (US)
Bakeru is a 2023 action video game developed by Good-Feel and published by Spike Chunsoft. It was released in Japan for the Nintendo Switch on 30 November 2023. It was later released internationally for Nintendo Switch and Windows on 3 September 2024. Bakeru has been described as a spiritual successor to the Ganbare Goemon series.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 42 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 55% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 27,230 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.2k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 409 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$39.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $11.99 at Steam (2025-08-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10610620242026Week of 2024-09-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$11.992024-09-032026-10-082024-09-03 — best price $35.992024-09-10 — best price $39.992024-12-19 — best price $19.992025-01-02 — best price $39.992025-01-16 — best price $15.992025-01-30 — best price $39.992025-03-13 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $39.992025-04-25 — best price $19.992025-05-09 — best price $39.992025-06-08 — best price $19.992025-06-15 — best price $39.992025-06-27 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $39.992025-08-25 — best price $11.992025-09-08 — best price $39.992025-09-29 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $39.992025-10-27 — best price $19.992025-11-03 — best price $39.992025-12-18 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $39.992026-03-09 — best price $15.992026-03-26 — best price $39.992026-04-21 — best price $15.992026-05-05 — best price $39.992026-06-04 — best price $15.992026-06-11 — best price $39.992026-06-25 — best price $15.992026-07-09 — best price $39.992026-09-04 — best price $15.992026-09-18 — best price $39.992026-10-01 — best price $15.992026-10-08 — best price $39.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

55142026-07-16 — 21 pageviews2026-07-19 — 25 pageviews2026-07-22 — 25 pageviews2026-07-25 — 19 pageviews2026-07-28 — 33 pageviews2026-07-31 — 14 pageviews2026-08-03 — 30 pageviews2026-08-06 — 26 pageviews2026-08-09 — 36 pageviews2026-08-12 — 25 pageviews2026-08-15 — 17 pageviews2026-08-18 — 22 pageviews2026-08-21 — 25 pageviews2026-08-24 — 43 pageviews2026-08-27 — 24 pageviews2026-08-30 — 26 pageviews2026-09-02 — 34 pageviews2026-09-05 — 46 pageviews2026-09-08 — 30 pageviews2026-09-11 — 34 pageviews2026-09-14 — 42 pageviews2026-09-17 — 15 pageviews2026-09-20 — 19 pageviews2026-09-23 — 35 pageviews2026-09-26 — 24 pageviews2026-09-29 — 19 pageviews2026-10-02 — 23 pageviews2026-10-05 — 26 pageviews2026-10-08 — 20 pageviews2026-10-11 — 31 pageviews2026-10-12 — 33 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
93.1%
earned "Got the Scoop!"
18.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-09-03 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6796%71
Switch (Nintendo)1080%0
Switch (Nintendo)760%0
Switch (Nintendo)640%0

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

Player tags

3DAnimeFunnyMagicActionComedyCartoonForeignCartoonyColorful

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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