Stray Blade
Skip · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 12.6h 24.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.59/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 531 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Stray Blade is an action-adventure where you play a rogue Adventurer exploring the ancient Valley of Acrea with your companion, the Xhinnon wolf Boji. Unveil the history of the forgotten valley and master the powers of the three Acrean Metals to restore balance to this war-torn land.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Radeon RX 480 (8192 MB) or GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4096 MB), 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 30 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Death's Door ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Souldiers ($2.99, scores 26).
More about Stray Blade
Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 303 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to July 2026.
The drop-off
85% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Sep 26, 11:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Finished Stray Blade after about 18 hours. It's a classic "jack of all trades, master of none" soulslike. The game tries to be an open-world Metroidvania with crafting, weapon mastery, and interconnected areas… and ends up being mediocre at almost everything. Here's my honest review: POSITIVES: - The world of Acrea is genuinely beautiful - large, varied, and atmospheric. - Performance was fine on PC (smooth 60 FPS...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
*This review was machine translated from Korean to English. Stray Blade Gorgeous to Look At, Misery to Play: An Action Game Without Common Sense 🎨 The Saving Grace: Decent Visuals and Motion Variety To be fair, the game looks decent. While the combat itself isn't mechanically smooth, the developers didn't just copy-paste the attack strings. Instead, they put effort into designing distinct animations and execution...
Baby's first soulslike. Not difficult by any stretch of the imagination, but not bad either.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Stray Blade scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1621990/stray-bladeReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.