Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade
Skip · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 3, under the fair line, at $13.99.
- Length
- 2.7h 14.7h to 100%
- Value
- $5.18/hr
- Reviews
- 57% of 599 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $11.19 (20% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Defeat malevolent forces in this stunning Japanese-inspired roguelite world! Become a master of the Demon Blades and combat swarms of demons in a fantasy realm set in the Edo period. Through every journey, you will unveil the hidden truths concealed within troubled times.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: GeForce GTX 1650 or above, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 7 times in the 17 months tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos ($19.99, scores 48) outscores it, and so does Achilles: Legends Untold ($4.99, scores 45). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade
26 of the 501 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to June 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 4 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 4 of the 26 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 120 reviews written there were positive, against 57 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 15, 5.4 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
94% start to 90% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Well. There isn't much I can say that's positive. I am posting this after completing all 3 characters story arcs. The Good: - The combat is snappy. It's fast and fluid - There are 3 playable characters, and they all play differently. Different strengths and weaknesses, and each character features multiple different weapons with traits that change up your playstyle The Bad: Almost everything else - The story is meh...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Story seems nice but the gameplay is grindy and repeated. People have compared this to Hades II.
game is mess. parry window being clunky and dodges are being too slow . thats make game really bad . they need to get rid of parries or fix parry window and make dodges more faster . really bad combat . just fix two things and game can be decent to play. otherwise its so bad. will update this if they fix
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2169950/yasha-legends-of-the-demon-bladeReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.