SAMURAI WARRIORS 5
Fair · Action · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $59.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17.8h
- Value
- $3.37/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon R7 370, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
A new SAMURAI WARRIORS begins. After a 7-year wait, a new instalment in the tactical action series "SAMURAI WARRIORS" is finally here!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $29.99, set in September 2023. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 28 in the 5 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DYNASTY WARRIORS 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition ($49.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Nioh: Complete Edition ($49.99, scores 52).
This site sampled 542 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 109 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 17.8 hours; clearing it takes 116, which is 6.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
96% 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
21 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 16:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I love musous, but this one just felt incredibly bland in particular. The swap to weapon sets is something I'm not big on, and the best I can say is the art style is rather pretty to look at and the port is solid. Characters really lose their uniqueness without separate movesets, for some reason. I hope they don't continue this direction with the series.
Eh. This game is fine, but I can't recommend it. It's lacking a LOT of content compared to SW4, hell even SW4-II. Many character have been cut, since the period ends at 1582 at Yamazaki , and even with character cuts there are clones aplenty. Gameplay is good, Hyper attacks got nerfed a bit. I can respect them trying something new with the story. Citadel mode is trash, and you have to play it if you want to upgrade...
Samurai Warriors 5 is a solid pick if you want that classic Musou action without spending a fortune. It runs at about one third the price of Dynasty Warriors Origins during sales and actually launches fine on my PC. With everything maxed out the performance stays smooth and my GPU never even hit full load. No annoying stutters or optimization problems like some other games in the series. Gameplay feels like Dynasty...
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Cite this score
SAMURAI WARRIORS 5 scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1591530/samurai-warriors-5Reviews 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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