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

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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 2,392 reviews of which 2,163 were positive and 229 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 9.05€ on Gamivo.

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

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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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May 2025
(Kudos to the Developers for having delightfully drawn females, quirky humor and giant bouncing thangs!) I wanted to play these games ever since I was a teenager! Sadly it was an expensive game for GBA and I never got a chance... Years later and I can finally play 'em to my hearts content. ^^ Was it as good as I thought it be?... HECK YEAH! It has just the right amount of difficulty for someone like me! Okay, I may have nearly quit on the Shaking Worm Boss from beneath part... Seriously... Screen shakes and tummies don't go well together... >.> But with perseverance... And jumping into spikes on accident... The game was beat!!! *Proud Moment*
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April 2025
One of the best platformers I've ever played and I've played a lot of them. So full of cool surprises, always finding little ways to make things more fun, likeable characters, super snappy combat, not particularly difficult to complete or to find all the items but always rewards exploration. It really is good.
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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
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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.
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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!!!
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Frequently Asked Questions

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero received 2,163 positive votes out of a total of 2,392 achieving a rating of 8.65.
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Shantae: Half-Genie Hero was developed and published by WayForward.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is not playable on MacOS.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is not playable on Linux.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is a single-player game.

There are 3 DLCs available for Shantae: Half-Genie Hero. Explore additional content available for Shantae: Half-Genie Hero on Steam.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero supports Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
19.99€ -55% 19.99€ 9.05€
8.7
2,163
229
Game modes
Features
Online players
2
Developer
WayForward
Publisher
WayForward
Release 20 Dec 2016
Platforms
Remote Play
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