SAMURAI SHODOWN V SPECIAL / サムライスピリッツ零スペシャル
Skip · Action · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a worth-it price before.
Today
$9.99Skip
On its price record
$1.74Worth it
- Length
- 0.5h 5.1h to 100%
- Value
- $19.98/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 566 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.74 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
SAMURAI SHODOWN V SPECIAL, which was the last game made for SNK’s NEOGEO back in 2004, finally makes its way onto Steam. It features everything fans expect from a fighting game such as training mode, online matches, etc.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: Onboard graphics chipset with 256MB video RAM, 328 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
46 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection ($39.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Capcom Arcade Stadium (free, scores 1).
More about SAMURAI SHODOWN V SPECIAL / サムライスピリッツ零スペシャル
1 of the 300 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 201 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
0.5 hours to finish it, 5 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 10 times the campaign.
The drop-off
7% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Classic SNK chaos at its best. The combat is brutally fast, every hit feels dangerous, and the roster has a ton of personality. It's definitely old-school and unforgiving, but once the mechanics click, the matches become insanely tense and satisfying. Still one of the coolest weapon-based fighters out there.
2 more reviews
This version of V Special has features not present in the Neo Geo Collection, like a practice mode and crossplay. If those features are important to you, or if you are looking to try a Samurai Shodown game for the first time and don't want to commit to a whole collection this title is here for you.
SAMURAI SHODOWN V SPECIAL / サムライスピリッツ零スペシャル, developed by SNK CORPORATION and Code Mystics and published by SNK CORPORATION, is one of the most uncompromising entries in the long-running weapon-based fighting series, and arguably its most distilled expression of what makes the franchise unique. Originally released in arcades in 2004 as the final official Neo Geo title, it represents both an endpoint and a...
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Cite this score
SAMURAI SHODOWN V SPECIAL / サムライスピリッツ零スペシャル scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1076550/samurai-shodown-v-specialReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.