Blades of Time
Skip · Action · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 9.1h
- Value
- $1.10/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Ati Radeon x1300 256 MB or nVidia GeForce 7300 GS, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Ayumi, the gorgeous gun and sword-wielding treasure hunter, sets out on a journey to an ancient island in search of new adventures. While rich in bounty, the island is also filled with the magic of Chaos, being at the same time home to blood thirsty monsters.
What drives the score
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The value story
December 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. It has been discounted 23 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 15 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 15 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 14 percent on value. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition ($29.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™ ($4.99, scores 38).
Critics scored it 63. Players sit 16 points higher at 79 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
3 of the 446 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 230 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
82% start to 3% 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 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
+Good graphics from the PS3/XBOX360 era +Great character designs -Tedious and repetitive gameplay -Forgettable story
Bought this on a sale, didn't plan on playing it right away but binged the entire game in one sitting. Although it has some major flaws, it has a charm and it's extremely addictive lol.
Very clunky controls. Really hated the time control mechanics, felt like it was more of a hindrance. Story line is terrible.
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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Blades of Time scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/208670/blades-of-timeThe 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 6, price as of Sep 24.
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