Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains
Fair · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $6.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2023. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 24.4h
- Value
- $0.29/hr
- Reviews
- 84% 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% ($6.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
This Game is one of the most popular RPGs in the Chinese Speaking Area and has won many awards around Asia. The game story takes place in an era of collision between East and West, covering a wide range, spanning Eurasia, the Arab World, Francia, and China.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.99, set in July 2024. 27 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $6.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Scar of Sky ($4.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats FINAL FANTASY IV ($10.79, scores 63).
None of the 484 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 202 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
91% start to 6% 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
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 21:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I really love the game! If you haven't played any chinese RPG this one is just amazing. Aside from the "poor" translation (mostly words outside the text box) you can enjoy one amazing story, especially since it shows more of a world where small countries are being conquered by strong forces and how this can shape the culture and everything of the world.
If you are interested in games outside the usual Western/Japanese canon, this is a must-play - one of the best Taiwanese RPGs from the 90s, finally available in English. However, there's two big caveats: the English translation is mediocre, and the remaster is based on the mobile port, which significantly lowered the game's difficulty (you gain XP far too quickly, especially during the first 2-3 hours). Personally...
TLDR: Base Game is not fun, DVD DLC does not work on Steam Deck. I originally purchased the "base game" back before they launched the DVD DLC. Base game launched on the Steam Deck, but as many others have said, did not have the charm of the original DVD game. I took a refund. I purchased the game again during the holiday sale. DLC does NOT launch on Steam Deck in gaming mode, but will launch on Desktop Mode...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains scores 67/100 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/1638230/xuan-yuan-sword-mists-beyond-the-mountainsReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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