Wandering Sword
BANGER · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 40.7h
- Value
- $0.61/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Buy now or wait
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
- 20% ($19.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 25% ($18.74)
- Last discount ended
- 9 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Wandering Sword is a Chinese martial-arts RPG where you play a young swordsman caught up in a feud and nearly dies. Escaping the event puts you on the path of pursuing the highest form of martial arts and exploring the pugilistic world to become the great hero you are always destined to be.
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 $17.49, set in September 2026. It has been discounted 26 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 15 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Monster Sanctuary ($19.99, scores 85) and Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition ($39.99, scores 81), are both worse buys on this math.
The math says it holds its tier up to $52.79, and you are being asked for $24.99.
The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,441 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 925 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 40.7 hours; clearing it takes 101, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
3 years after release, 4.1K people were playing it when we last checked, on Sep 29, 15:46 UTC.
The drop-off
68% start to 22% 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
4,098 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 15:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Overall a good turn based RPG, but would prefer them to stop with all the missable (missed a big part of event and playable characters) not everyone have time to redo a second playthrough and it is simply not fun having to keep looking at guide while playing. Every skills have their own specific buff, it sound fun at first, but getting out of hands late game. "Using this skills proc buff A at 50% last 4 turns but if...
I almost hate how invested I got in this game because y'all, this is a long haul game. The world doesn't seem vast but there are layers and layers and those layers have layers of what you can get into. The drawback of this is that it's possible to back your folks into a corner where they're not amped up enough for the quests available, so be careful of that. I was surprised by how the storylines got me, especially...
This is a great game with a ton of passion poured into it, and is totally worth picking up at the price. But it's not without its frustrations, so know these before jumping in: [*] The game is rife with points where going somewhere or talking to someone in the wrong order may lock you into a certain outcome without any context that this may happen to you, so you have to keep several active save files. [*] Related to...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Wandering Sword scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1876890/wandering-swordReviews 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 19, price as of Oct 1.
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