Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
Skip · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $34.99.
- Length
- 12.9h
- Value
- $2.71/hr
- Reviews
- 63% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 960 or equivalent (or better), 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $12.24. That was November 2024. It has been discounted 30 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 40 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Assassin's Creed Valhalla ($11.99, scores 24) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($19.99, scores 1).
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 September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 724 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
96% start to 16% 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
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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...
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...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Xuan-Yuan Sword VII scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1249800/xuan-yuan-sword-viiThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Sep 24.
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