Rise of the Ronin
Rise of the Ronin
Game
Game2015
RONIN
Developer Tomasz Wacławek
Ronin is a turn-based action platform video game developed by indie developer Tomasz Wacławek and published by Devolver Digital. It was released for Microsoft Windows on 27 May 2015 into Steam Early Access and left it on 30 June 2015. A later update for the game introduced builds for OS X and Linux on 15 October 2015. A PlayStation 4 port of Ronin was released on 1 November 2016. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
288 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
63
Fresh
118 positive · 68 negative
95% range 56–70%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 118 | 68 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 22 | 5 | 70 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
1,006 of 1,546 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
63% recommend · 118 yes, 69 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 187 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (1,713 of 2,465 positive).
Players praise the unique turn-based combat and satisfying gameplay. [1][2][3] Many reviewers criticize the clunky controls and unresolved bugs. [4][5][6] Some recommend buying on sale due to short length and lack of polish. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
Its like Gunpoint (remember that game?), but far more frustrating. It tries to be a turn based combat game, but every single fight consists of jumping up and down until the guys with guns stop to reload. Controls are awful, half of the time the character jumps or grapples something you didn't want. Once you start a jump, you have to press the right analog to cancel it, instead of ANY of the unused buttons. Sometimes …
- [6]
Cool concept, terrible execution. Clumsy and inconsistent controls. Known bugs unfixed after a decade. Doesn't work at high resolution, no resolution controls in options - just windowed or full screen. For it to be playable at all I have to play in a tiny window that takes up 1/6 of my screen. There's forum posts complaining about this dated to 2016. Gameplay is sorta turn based, and accurate movement is critical. …
- [1]
This game is ridiculously fun. I replay it periodically because it's just that good, and I keep checking back on the developer here on Steam to see if he's put out a new game. It's been ten years since this was put on Steam (at the time of this writing), and I'm still hoping for more games like this. Just a great game.
- [8]
Mark of the Ninja meets Gunpoint. If the controls were tightened up (often you jump or grapple when you mean to attack, wasting your turn and getting you killed), if the game was longer, and if it didn't have the absurd difficulty spike on the second to last boss, I'd say this is an underrated classic. As it stands however, it's simply a cool idea executed in a somewhat mediocre way. Every day I wish Steam would add …
- [2]
Quick! Slash that guy! PAUSE... Oh, uh... Slash THAT guy! PAUSE... Okay... Ronin instantly reminded me of Mark of the Ninja, but the gameplay couldn't be more different. It's a side-scrolling action platformer with a turn-based twist. Not something you see very often... if ever. The art style isn't the greatest, but it fits the game well enough. The gameplay is what kept me coming back, with each encounter feeling …
Summarised from 34 of the 276 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked RONIN talk about unique turn-based combat that feels like a tactical puzzle; those who didn't talk about clunky and inconsistent controls. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The PC and PlayStation 4 versions received "mixed or average reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Reviewers praised the PC version's overall design concept and the alikeness with Gunpoint. Though, people still differentiated them, where Phil Savage of PC Gamer stated that Ronin is "the schlocky B-movie to Gunpoint's more cerebral stealth-puzzling". Something that was not as well received was the repetitiveness of some levels, as Matt Porter of Hooked Gamers wrote: "Each of the five people you have to kill are in the same type of boring office building." Ronin's lowest review rating was given by Steven Bogos of The Escapist, who said, "Ronin is a remarkably…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 288 · most liked firstJust got my author copies of the new FIFTH SEASON RPG book from Green Ronin! This is the special edition, and it's gorgeous. Ozzy agrees. Official release is on June 20, available in most game and book stores. You can still preorder here: greenroninstore.com/products/fif...
neutral · AI labelView post →Years later, you come back to the forest wondering, “Is that hunky werewolf still there?” Ronin is still very much “there” and upped his game. 🎨 by @noswift.art
neutral · AI labelView post →How many of y’all wish Ronin would be a secret romance option in a VN or game? 🎨 by the talented and kind @zahriart.bsky.social thank you again!
neutral · AI labelView post →First teaser for the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin' video game 🐢
neutral · AI labelView post →I need to point out that in an era when most publishers are shying away from minority representation, Green Ronin has decided to put a trans latina front and center on the cover of the new superhero roleplaying game! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...
neutral · AI labelView post →PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium welcome a host of games this July: 🦋 Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 🥷 Rise of the Ronin 🚒 Firefighting Simulator: Ignite ⚡ Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind …and more. Full details: play.st/4fBgBXQ
neutral · AI labelView post →It's March! Remasters for Xenoblade Chronicles X and Suikoden I & II land this month, alongside a new Atelier game, a new Assassin's Creed, a PC version of Rise of the Ronin, indies, & more. What are you picking up? Full 2025 RPG release date list -> www.rpgsite.net/feature/1437...
neutral · AI labelView post →One weird positive about games where you can select your character’s gender but the devs definitely planed the game out as if you were a dude is that its very easy to be a huge lesbian haha (Playing Rise of the Ronin)
positive · AI labelView post →I reviewed Rise of Ronin. It's like an accessible Sekiro... and Nioh... and Ghost of Tsushima... and... anyway, I actually love the game! Review's here: www.thejimquisition.com/post/rise-of...
positive · AI labelView post →So a poster on reddit says they asked if Green Ronin (makers of the Dragon Age TTRPG game) if they would make more, and they got a response saying: “Bioware stopped talking to us, and we have to assume they've abandoned the idea of letting us do more with the game.” www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Sneak & slay in a retro-cyberpunk city, in this immersive stealth action game with lots of verticality! Tokyo Walled City is coming to Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4165760/... game by indie dev Grim Ronin #gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s with gaming just suddenly going for my wallet? Rayman? Spyro? TMNT Last Ronin? Godzilla? Doom? Crazy Taxi? Castlevania? That one game that looks straight outta Studio Ghibli?
neutral · AI labelView post →YAYY RISE OF RONIN IS COMING TO PC - SUCH AN UNDERRATED GAME.
positive · AI labelView post →#IGNAwards nominees for Best Action Adventure Game of 2024: Black Myth: Wukong Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Rise of the Ronin Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 Stellar Blade Full nominees: bit.ly/3ZLTKky
neutral · AI labelView post →Alongside today's TMNT: The Last Ronin game announcement, fans can get a 10 page preview of The Last Ronin: Training Day.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rise of the Ronin. Play this game
positive · AI labelView post →Token is our new game. We are creating a top-down exploration, side-scrolling combat title. Meet a colorful cast and save the forest village as a wandering Ronin Samurai frog #gamedev #game #indiedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Managed to paint my Ronin during the game with the paint pens. #hametsu
neutral · AI labelView post →I often don't get along to MORPCon, but when I do it never disappoints. This time I played Taro the Trickster in a fantastic game of Ronin (by @slightlyrecklessgames.com) with GM @ottomancer.bsky.social and fellow Ronin @daftoldefart.bsky.social @mikeydemonsamurai.bsky.social @red-dog.xyz.
neutral · AI labelView post →some solid CIA movies to reward yourself with after a Monday: Spy Game Clear & Present Danger Hunt for Red October Ronin The Good Shepherd Sicario The Bourne Identity Body of Lies Mission: Impossible
neutral · AI labelView post →Rise of the Ronin finished 9/10 combat (no open world game touches it) 7/10 open world (fun to navigate, really cool setting: 1800s Japan) 0/10 story (what the fuck)
neutral · AI labelView post →Got a lovely gift from the pixel artist Zelnyair! Would you let Ronin join you as a rogue in a FF game? Link to their account! Check out Zel's work! www.furaffinity.net/user/zelnyair/
neutral · AI labelView post →PlatinumGames is developing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, it's been confirmed. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/platinu...
neutral · AI labelView post →Three years later, that 'dark' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin game gets a first trailer, and it's being created by Bayonetta studio Platinum Games www.eurogamer.net/teenage-ninj...
neutral · AI labelView post →Green Ronin is having a launch party for ENGINE, the Adventure Game Engine magazine, at our new community hub AtomicThinkTank.com I'll be there! mailchi.mp/greenronin.c...
neutral · AI labelView post →Last Ronin game is suuuuuuuch a good shout
positive · AI labelView post →Cowabunga! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is getting a game from Platinum Games!
neutral · AI labelView post →I can finally play Rise of the Ronin on PC! Heard so many great things about this game, especially the cat petting minigame.
positive · AI labelView post →The Ranked Ronin Back Bling's unlockable ranked styles aren't working, and this is fixed in a future game update. I’ll keep you updated.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ronin, the best Boi (≧ヮ≦) 💕 Made this a month ago, after replaying the game. The expression took me far too long to get right. Hui! But I like it :3 Started a tumblr, having fun with it :D #killerchat #roninbeaufort #fanart #art #artsky #visualnovel
neutral · AI labelView post →Green Ronin just launched their new Kickstarted for the Valiant superhero roleplaying game, using the Mutants & Masterminds engine! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...
neutral · AI labelView post →Overall, I'm very excited to run this game. I'm a fan of Mork Borg already, and Ronin does a good job of taking the mechanics and darkness of that game and remixing it for Samurai fiction.
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight on the Gaming Hell Stream, let's play Konami's jidaigeki action-adventure game, Ronin Blade / Soul of the Samurai! www.twitch.tv/tepidsnake
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghost of Yotei has my heart. What a gorgeous game #gamer #ghostofyotei #aiart #ronin
neutral · AI labelView post →Its like Gunpoint (remember that game?), but far more frustrating. It tries to be a turn based combat game, but every single fight consists of jumping up and down until the guys with guns stop to reload. Controls are awful, half of the time the character jumps or grapples something you didn't want. Once you start a jump, you have to press the right analog to cancel it, instead of ANY of the unused buttons. Sometimes enemies notice you across the room, sometimes they don't. Doesn't seems to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →we need to come together and decide on what is the single most mid video game of every console generation. for example the most mid game of the current generation is Rise of the Ronin
neutral · AI labelView post →IF WE GET A TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE LAST RONIN VIDEO GAME UPDATE I’LL GIVE EVERYONE WHO LIKES THIS POST $400!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →July's PlayStation Plus Game Catalog titles include Rise of the Ronin and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Indigo Prophecy / Fahrenheit is also one of two Classics Catalog titles this month. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/julys-p...
neutral · AI labelView post →the people yearn for an update on Insomniac's Wolverine game or the TMNT Last Ronin game it's me I'm the people
neutral · AI labelView post →Pssst revisiting Rise of the Ronin on PS5 Pro is pretty damn fun. Here’s my review from when the game launched… RISE OF THE RONIN Review (PS5) - Better Than Ghost of Tsushima? - Electric Playground youtu.be/cUhw-59KeEY
positive · AI labelView post →The big return of the “fighting game”-y oc art. Funny enough, this one was actually the first one I made of the series. Just ended up working a bit more before I wanted to post it. #art #ocsky #fightinggame #ronin #samuraigirl
neutral · AI labelView post →THE LAST RONIN GAME LIVES!!! Ok, ok……this isn’t the worst show ever.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is ridiculously fun. I replay it periodically because it's just that good, and I keep checking back on the developer here on Steam to see if he's put out a new game. It's been ten years since this was put on Steam (at the time of this writing), and I'm still hoping for more games like this. Just a great game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No mention of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin game…
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm really late to this game, but Rise of the Ronin has really fun combat.
positive · AI labelView post →Rise of the Ronin slashes onto Steam on March 10!
neutral · AI labelView post →Here’s My Digital Fan Art of Shadow Ronin Blade Heart from the New Gacha Game: Dragon Traveler. I hope you guys like it 🥰✍🏿🎨 #digitalart #digitalartist #bladeheart #dragontraveler #gachafanart
neutral · AI labelView post →Got full achievements in Rise of the Ronin Tldr: loved the game. My impressions in the comments, beware of spoilers.
positive · AI labelView post →The look and idea behind this game is good but the inconsistent controls destroy it. This kind of game needs precise controls and not the clunky mess that we got in this game. My rating 5/10, not recommended.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’ve been playing Rise of the Ronin which is essentially what you get if you get Team Ninja to make their own Assassins Creed game but instead of climbing towers you have to find cats
positive · AI labelView post →Playing some Ronin Blade right now, a game that is pure PS1
positive · AI labelView post →It's Talk Like a Pirate Day, yes - but what about Game like a Pirate day? Check out this collection of adventures in Green Ronin's classic Freeport setting! legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/1714...
neutral · AI labelView post →Wo Long 2 demo impressions: this game would be really cool if it didn't run like ass and I'm really starting to get super frustrated with Team Ninja about how issues that Nioh 3 and Rise of the Ronin had are cropping up still. I get that it's an alpha demo but still it's ROUGH
negative · AI labelView post →Cool concept, terrible execution. Clumsy and inconsistent controls. Known bugs unfixed after a decade. Doesn't work at high resolution, no resolution controls in options - just windowed or full screen. For it to be playable at all I have to play in a tiny window that takes up 1/6 of my screen. There's forum posts complaining about this dated to 2016. Gameplay is sorta turn based, and accurate movement is critical. Most of the time you jump from place to place. The jump arc shown in game does…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As others have said, this is an incredibly polished and good looking short game that feels like a chore to play due to poor UI, imprecise implementation of core combat mechanics that _require precision from the player_, and the generally unsatisfying feel of the movement that the game is based around enjoying. On a positive note, the art direction and music are fantastic. They remind me a lot of the cell-shaded Newgrounds-era art style that a lot of indie games in the 2000s used, and it's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I need more details of that “The Last Ronin” game stat!
neutral · AI labelView post →Fully completed the game but it was overall not great. Very unpolished, bugs, crashes, clunky controls, full-screen is broken. Got all the achievements but it felt more like a chore than a fun experience.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They're announcing a Ronin Warriors game next, right? Right?
neutral · AI labelView post →A truly baffling game. Dev just dropped a game with rampant performance issues rendering it unplayable to ruin an otherwise really fun combat system and concept. Why?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Today I'd like to share the art of the incredible @chaoclypse.bsky.social. He's an illustrator, designer, writer, video game developer, and possibly a frog, but that hasn't been confirmed yet. He's worked in some awesome games like Under the Fourth Kingdom, Ronin , Forbidden Psalm, and others.
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