Shantae: Half-Genie Hero on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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!

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is a female protagonist, platformer and metroidvania game developed and published by WayForward.
Released on December 20th 2016 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain and Japanese.

It has received 2,382 reviews of which 2,155 were positive and 227 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 4.20€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Shantae: Half-Genie Hero into these genres:

Female Protagonist Platformer Metroidvania Cute Action Singleplayer Side Scroller Anime 2.5D Hand-drawn Adventure 2D Indie Funny Kickstarter Fantasy Comedy Action-Adventure Crowdfunded Great Soundtrack

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7 Service Pack 1
Processor: 2.2 GHz Dual-Core CPU with Hyper Threading
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 310 or equivalent (it must be able to manage Pixel Shader 3.0) with at least 1GB of display memory
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 2 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

While im not a huge fan of metroidvanias, this was a very enjoyable game, the platforming, music and artstyle all feel so nice I will say some of the items feel completely pointless and just tacked on for fun but nevertheless it was a great experience

Sept. 2024

Good, but not the highlight of the series. Does suffer from some issues. It seems to want to return to the series “walk to the right” roots while also have the exploration and backtracking from the previous title. Which would be okay if they included a map for tracking stuff you can't get at yet. It's very common to unlock a transformation from level C, go back to level A to unlock a new ability for a different transformation, then use that ability in level B for a plot critical item. There are also too many transformations, and most of them only have one purpose. Often to the point where you only need them for a single challenge and then never use them again. You'll often find yourself constantly transforming back and forth for some challenges, which gets tedious quickly. Most notably with having two different ones for underwater, and having to surface to switch between them. The game also lacks a central villain for most of the game. You're just beating every bad guy from all the previous games in their own self-contained stories, while also helping Uncle Mimic finish a machine in the background. It would have been nice to have all these adventures be connected in a more solid way. Overall I did enjoy it. But I still feel like Pirate's Curse was better. And biased on some reviews I've read Seven Sirens does fix a lot of these issues.

Sept. 2024

Reviewing this after first playthrough on main mode. This is a significant visual upgrade over previous entries in the series now in vector style from pixel art. They added some minor voice acting on some dialog. I'm not sure if it is good or bad but this game seems way easier in comparison to Pirate's Curse which I admit gave up the last stage cause the platforming was way too hard. I'm not sure if having the game. I remember in Risky's Revenge which iirc has no difficulty option, I got myself killed multiple times of the first boss (I think) the Squid Baron. I got passed all bosses with no issues which makes me wonder if this should be played hard mode from start. The game has other arcade style modes with Shantae of different outfit. There's a mode all for Shantae's friends and one for Risky Boots. However, as mentioned I touch the main game so I cannot give other details. I might revisit this game for the other modes if the platforming itch comes. If you're into platforming, metroidvania and such; the Shantae series is worth checking out.

Aug. 2024

the main story is a bit short, and becomes wayyyy to easy after a collecting a lot of heart containers, but still has that clasic shantae charm, cant wait for shantae advance 2025!!!

April 2024

Pretty good game, solid gameplay, it has its problems here and there, but nothing too obvious, the art change may not be everyone cup of tea, but in the end the game is true to the Shantae's IP.

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