Blade of Darkness
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 16.3h
- Value
- $0.92/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 11 and Oct 24, at about $5.99 (60% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 50 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($5.99)
- Last discount ended
- 21 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 11 compatible for 1920x1080, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Blade of Darkness is a hardcore fantasy action-adventure with unique combat mechanics and role-playing elements that pioneered the “soulsborne” genre. Pick one of four characters to hack and slash through a gory quest to save the world from the forces of Chaos.
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
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was May 2024. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 47 in the 5 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Darksiders III ($5.99, scores 47) and Enotria: The Last Song ($39.99, scores 18).
75 from critics against 90 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 44 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 525 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 611 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
77% start to 44% finishSteam 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
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 03:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I just finished this and man I am surprised I've never heard of this gem, such an awesome game. It's dark, it's got orcs, skeletons, black knights, it feels very old school fantasy like Conan the Barbarian and such. It's not really an rpg, you get to pick between 4 different characters that got different playstyles and you do level up from killing enemies, but all stat increase happen on its own, it's mostly a...
This has been one of my favorite games since my childhood. Amazing atmosphere, amazing gameplay.. hands down... I used to play it a lot with my father and recently completed it again with my wife.
I played the game somewhere back in 2001 or something, from a demo that was distributed in pc game magazines and I would always be thinking about this one. Other games where good and players outgrew them as they got older, other games went from point A to point B and were streamlined, other games followed the trends of their time and remained as products of their time. However "Blade of Darkness" managed to capture...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Blade of Darkness scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1710170/blade-of-darknessReviews 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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