DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.8h
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 59% over the last 30 days against 86% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 / AMD Radeon RX 590 / Intel Arc A750, 29 GB of storage. Windows only.
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO takes the legendary gameplay of the Budokai Tenkaichi series and raises it to whole new levels. Make yours the destructive power of the strongest fighters ever to appear in Dragon Ball!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $29.99. 10 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today's $29.99 at 40 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 60 at list, 65 today.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. The nearest things to it, Undisputed ($49.99, scores 3) and AEW: Fight Forever ($39.99, scores 4), are both worse buys on this math.
Players rate it 86 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 59 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 2,331 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (boost, cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 10.8 hours. Doing everything runs 44, 4.1 times as long.
The drop-off
80% start to 5% 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
949 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
insane to not include the DLC in ultimate edition then just delete the ultimate edition to create a new legendary edition that is the same price and has the dlc. greedy ass bandai ruining ♥♥♥♥ as always
imagine a game company making a game where the AI opponent cheat out their ass and you don't enjoy a single moment of it because they thought a perfect enemy is one that cant be countered and literally reads your inputs the exact millisecond its entered. and to add insult to injury you have to meet ♥♥♥ criteria just so you can enjoy anything that's not the main story which itself is dry and cut compared to the...
I'll keep it short... Best Dragon Ball game I have EVER played. If you loved the DBZ Budokai games from the PS2 you will surely love Sparking Zero... + Fast, fun, challenging, A+ graphics, large roster of characters, lots of content - The story is skipped through a bit too much, I highly recommend watching the Anime if you care about the story. (Side Note: NO you do not need to buy DLC, its a full complete game...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1790600/dragon-ball-sparking-zeroThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 23.
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