MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA
Worth it · Action · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 4.2h
- Value
- $3.57/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 / Radeon HD 7970, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
This is the latest addition to the series of 2D fighting games based on TYPE-MOON's visual novel, Tsukihime. The curtain rises once more on dramatic battles played out with familiar characters from Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in June 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 32 in the 5 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $14.99 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 59. The current cut is what makes it a 78.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Lethal League ($13.99, scores 75) and Mortal Kombat 1 ($49.99, scores 29).
8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 1,217 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.2 hours; clearing it takes 19, which is 4.5 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
84% start to 2% 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
42 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
Old fighting game fan here. I've play a lot of anime fighters in my life, but none as rushdown heavy as this. And that's coming from someone whos played guilty gear since the first. I LOVE the characters in this. All of them very over the top and fun. I didn't like the combo system at first, but the more I played with it, the more it grew on me. Love how nice it flows, a lot faster and fun than current Guilty Gear...
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Overall fun fighting game. It does lack from character limitations and it may be hard to get trully into if you aren't a fan of Fate, or Tsukihime but even then it can be tons of fun with friends and the gateway to new experinces.
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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MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1372280/melty-blood-type-luminaThe 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 19, price as of Sep 23.
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