First Cut: Samurai Duel
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.4h
- Value
- $6.42/hr
- Reviews
- 88% 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
- 30% ($6.29)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($5.39)
- Last discount ended
- 35 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics or comparable, 154 MB of storage. Windows only.
Every strike is lethal in this blood-soaked sword fighting game. Slash, clash, parry, dodge and watch limbs fly. Choose your move carefully - the first cut is also the last.
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 $4.49, set in August 2026. It has been discounted 15 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lost Castle / 失落城堡 ($9.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Mortal Kombat 1 ($49.99, scores 29).
This site sampled 399 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 563 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 634 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
93% start to 1% 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
9 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 08:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Awesome spritework here and gameplay is fun but as some people probably mentioned here, it would really benefit from some sort of online play. Being arcadey and pick-and-play, its quite replayable when you need to scratch that itch for a cool duel. Fighting bots is fun n stuff unless you put them on horrid difficulties that you can only master by learning how a bot reacts which is multiplied by whatever amount there...
this game is great, its simplistic enough for you to learn how to play it and its a good price for what your getting
Love this game so much. High skill ceiling with relatively simplistic controls. My only complaint is no online Multiplayer, but you can do steam remote play with a friend. They will just be forced to use a controller.. which is a major disadvantage. PLEASE add online multiplayer dev .
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
First Cut: Samurai Duel scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2193490/first-cut-samurai-duelReviews 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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