Skulls of the Shogun
Worth it · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 9.9h
- Value
- $1.01/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Enter the Samurai Afterlife and join forces with vibrant ghost-samurai warriors, magical animal monks, and mustachioed samurai generals. It's fast-paced turn-based strategy inspired by Advance Wars, and supercharged with fighting-game flare!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in June 2020. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 38 in the 13 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart. 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 11 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pit People® ($19.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Worms World Party Remastered ($14.99, scores 0).
Critics scored it 72. Players sit 18 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 241 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026.
Finishing takes 9.9 hours; clearing it takes 26, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
42% 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
Played this game both on PS4 and PC and I still love it but sucks this game is underrated though.
It was a pretty fun little strategy game. You field a little troupe of undead samurai warriors and solve tactical puzzles - there's also a competitive mode that's alright. I think I just didn't connect with the art style, and there wasn't enough variety in gameplay to hold my interest for very long.
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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Skulls of the Shogun scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/228960/skulls-of-the-shogunThe 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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