Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Scar of Sky

Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Scar of Sky

Worth it · RPG · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $4.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Aug 2021.

Reviews
93% positive

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Typical seasonal cut
50% ($4.99)

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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Price
$4.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
93%
2,657 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet
Completionist
53h
100% (HowLongToBeat)

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

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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

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
Value, est. length~$0.62/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement28% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach75K+ 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
Refunds1 of 459 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

July 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 40 in the 5 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $4.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars ($49.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains ($6.99, scores 67).

Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 459 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 370 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

93% start to 28% 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

16 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 20:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Scar of Sky scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1638220/xuan-yuan-sword-the-scar-of-sky
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDOMO Studio
Publisher方块游戏(CubeGame)
GenreRPG
Released2021
Achievements60