NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Awakening

NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Awakening

Skip · Strategy · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 36, under the fair line, at $59.99.

Length
30.5h
Value
$1.97/hr
Reviews
74% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
30.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.97
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$59.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
74%
2,747 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB or over, AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB or over, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.

Conquer Warring States Japan under one banner
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Engagement47% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.97/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length31 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $38.99. That was June 2026. 18 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 36 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Souzou ($24.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence - Ascension ($59.99, scores 19).

Steam's global achievement data puts 47 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 125 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

It came out 4 years ago, and 944 were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 30, 05:49 UTC.

Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.

The drop-off

92% start to 47% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

944 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 05:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

It's my first game in the series but I like it. I don't have anything else to compare it to right now so this is my bar
SchmidleyRecommendedafter 7.3hMay 2026Read on Steam
Pretty fun. I have not played any of the other games but this is pretty fun introduction to the series. Not overly complicated and not hand holding too much in my opinion.
Lord MercuryRecommendedafter 7.7hMay 2026Read on Steam
首先這個游戲很好玩是客觀事實但光榮信長之野望這個游戲都做了數十年,新武將導入ui以及文字輸入法完全完全維持在30年前的水準從來不改善,價錢就改善得越來越好,我想問1下,光榮的程式編寫是不是這麼落後啊,新武將文字輸入法這麼多年都改善不了全世界隻有你是這樣的搞錯了什麼啊??? "Koei Tecmo is a joke. Your business practices look poorer than those in underdeveloped African nations. You intentionally sabotage the player experience at every turn, from historical biography inputs to custom officer portrait creation. It's understandable that you want to...
NathanielNot recommendedafter 262h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Awakening scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1336980/nobunaga-s-ambition-awakening
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Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

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Details

DeveloperKOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
PublisherKOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
GenreStrategy
Released2022
Achievements51