Blade Symphony
Skip · Multiplayer · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 0.2h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 66% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DX9.0c Compatible 256MB VRAM, NVIDIA Geforce 7600 Series / ATI x1600 Series, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Prove you are the world's greatest swordsman! Engage in tactical 1 vs. 1 sword fighting, 2 vs. 2, or sandbox FFA, or capture Control Points in a tactical slash-em-up.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It is less well reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. MORDHAU ($29.99, scores 56) outscores it, and so does Chivalry: Medieval Warfare ($24.99, scores 63). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 854 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 0.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 4, 20 times as much.
Free to start. It takes its money later, through cosmetic.
The drop-off
23% 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
What players say
Blade Symphony is a multiplayer melee combat game developed and published by Puny Human that transforms sword fighting into an intense contest of reflexes, strategy, and psychological warfare. Rather than following the typical hack-and-slash approach seen in many action games, Blade Symphony focuses on deliberate dueling mechanics where patience, timing, and precision matter far more than reckless aggression. The...
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A guy bowed to me with such elegance and grace. Then he breakdanced into my ribcage and hit me with a 14-hit combo while I was still trying to figure out which way was North. :D Best $0.00 I ever spent on getting my ego crushed politely.
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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Blade Symphony scores 15/100 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/225600/blade-symphonyThe 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 17.
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