Akane on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

2121 A.D, with no escape options, Akane prepares for her final battle in the rain-soaked neon streets of Mega-Tokyo. Akane is an arena arcade slasher. Take out as many yakuza as possible, slashing and shooting in a one-hit-one-kill fight to the death.

Akane is a indie, cyberpunk and action game developed and published by Ludic Studios.
Released on September 10th 2018 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 2,780 reviews of which 2,657 were positive and 123 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Akane into these genres:

Indie Cyberpunk Action Pixel Graphics Gore Violent Female Protagonist Hack and Slash Casual Arcade 2D Great Soundtrack Difficult Top-Down Singleplayer Rogue-like Fast-Paced Swordplay Rogue-lite

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT or equivalent
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 200 MB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible Audio
Additional Notes: Minimum Resolution: 1280 x 720

MacOS

OS: MAC OS X 10.8 to 10.12
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 2600, NVidia GeForce 9400 or equivalent
Storage: 200 MB available space
Additional Notes: Minimum Resolution: 1280 x 720

Linux

Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent
Memory: 2 MB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT or equivalent
Storage: 200 MB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible Audio
Additional Notes: Minimum Resolution: 1280 x 720

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

A fast, one-hit-you-die arcade thing that should be in every twitchy gamer's library. Mostly you're slashing with the sword, but you stop every once in a while to blast with various guns -- then you're back to the sword! It's the future, the pitiless cyberpunk future, and future-Yakuza stake their tattooed hides on melee weapons over the million types of space gun that must exist. Stupid perhaps, but very, very cool! The sword has its own stamina meter, and the guns (on the Yang side) have ammunition which is replenished by sword-slashing . A little bit of the old back 'n' forth never hurt anybody! You also build up a meter that can kill a bunch of guys at once, after a cool anime-ish cut scene of albino Akane giving the shifty eye while puffing on a cyberpunk cancer stick. The controls are very smooth, and the whole thing seems to be of a visual and gameplay style inspired by Hyper Light Drifter , which came out in 2016. The object here is simple. No roving adventure, just kill, kill like crazy . Raw mortality is score. Progression -- unlocking new guns and swords and smokes and shoes -- is accomplished by performing special challenges or building combos, which involves killing lots of guys quickly before the tiny combo meter depletes. I got buckets of sweaty fun out of aiming to get all achievements, tons of white-knuckled, lip-gnawing excitement -- and there's really not much else you can do. You can't "beat" the game beyond getting the AKANE cheevo capper; there's no kill screen, there's no conclusion to Akane's vague vengeance quest other than her own inevitable death . But that's just about plenty! I got 11 electric hours, and the cheevos make achievable targets for old wieners like me who like to skate on the cusp of try-hard . So quick, so fast; skill ceiling is reasonably high! Ya gotta have it! But . . . why must Akane die if my run is good enough? I wish I could glimpse the light at the far end of the bloody tunnel . . . (So, I bought an Ultimate 2 wired gamepad with hall sticks from Amazon, and the difference in accuracy is pretty noticeable. Really, I do not think it's a meme after all! I got really good at this game using my Chinese controller, taking out guys rapidly and from many directions with Dead Eye D;ck shots from far away, when it came time to let my sword cool down. Don't think I could have aimed much better with the mouse! I'd recommend grabbing one or two of these cheap bad boys before the stupid tariffs make it difficult.) (I enjoyed this even more because I've been reading lots of cyberpunk stuff lately, like Walter Jon Williams' Hardwired series -- and now I'm deep into William Gibson's classic Sprawl trilogy, which started it all. Gonna go for Snow Crash after that.)

March 2025

I have to recommend this game because despite everything it is priced well and I had fun playing it. But I will say that this game is worth its price rather exactly. It is a game with a very solid base gameplay loop, it was fun but everything on top of that feels slightly off. Most of the unlocks are not satisfying to get and usually worse than what you already have. And the game is built on a combo system that does not fully mesh with actual gameplay. In a game where I want to go fast and use stylish abilities I feel as though the combo system is asking me to slowdown so I don't run out enemies and not use cool abilities because they have too much end lag. The game is very simple, and good in it's simplicity but also seems to do too much and too little. If I could leave a mixed review I would.

Dec. 2024

7.5/10 Full-Fleshed brain-dead entertainment. I say it in a really good way, this kind of experience is really necessary for people like me. When you are tired because of work, college or whatever, and you want to play something that doesn´t require nothing more than pure reflexes and gives you an explosion of dopamine. That's what this game is, at least to me, and I could really appreciate it. It´s like a break for the brain when you want to play but you don´t have the mental energy to commit or engage yourself with a deep-story game.

Sept. 2024

Decent game, only issue i have are not visible enemys attack at borders when they come,

Sept. 2024

Girl goes on a suicide mission; gets what she wants. We enter her story on the final chapter. I was left wanting to know more about Akane, about the life she lived that lead her to this ending. Controls felt great, combat was tight, near instant restarts, Music fit the theme perfectly and added to the futuristic ambiance while giving the Player a good rythym to fight to. The difficulty and complexity of the game felt perfect. Incredible game. Worth the full price.

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3.99€

9.1

2,657

123

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Developer

Ludic Studios

Publisher

Ludic Studios

Release 10 Sep 2018

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