Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
Skip · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $34.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.71/hr
- Reviews▼
- 63% of 9,577
- Genre rank
- Top 92% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.9h
- To 100%
- 21.7h 1.7x the story
- Achievements
- 44
Price and sales
- Sales
- 30 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $12.24 November 2024
- Sale every
- 53d last December 2025
Players and genre
- Online
- 9 now
- Cheaper than
- 4% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 9% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
96% start to 16% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 30 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 44 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Three Kingdoms Zhao Yun ($19.99, scores 18) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($39.99, scores 0).
More about Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 725 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 307 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Overall: 6.5/10 Story: This is the first Xuan-Yuan Sword game I've played, but from what I gathered before jumping in, each entry tells its own story, so you don't really need knowledge of the previous games to understand what's going on here. In theory, that's great for newcomers like me. The narrative is clearly meant to be one of the biggest focuses of XYS7, and I appreciated being able to jump in without...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII is a story-driven action RPG that places narrative ambition and cultural identity at the center of its design. Developed by SOFTSTAR with DOMO Studio and published by SOFTSTAR in collaboration with Yooreka Studio, this installment continues one of the most established RPG franchises in the Chinese-speaking world while making a deliberate push toward modern real-time combat and cinematic...
The gameplay is okay, the world looks nice, too. However, the game is lacking at what is most impotant: story. While it started strong, the story went to 'we are just stading around talking several minutes about stuff we still have to do to stretch the story' fast. There is no way to quicken those boring long ass talks so if you don't want to skip the cutscene completely you just sit there, watching the characters...
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About the game
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII is an ARPG rooted in Chinese history and mythology. Players take on the role of Taishi Zhao, a calm and reliable swordsman who was accidentally involved in a tragic fate. To protect his beloved family, he starts a journey in this chaotic realm to find the truth.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 960 or equivalent (or better), 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1249800/xuan-yuan-sword-viiReviews 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 Oct 15, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.