DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS
Worth it · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $48.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Feb 2025.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.48/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 30,586
- Critics
- 84 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% RPG
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Score at full price
Score today
Watch this gameOne alert at $29.54 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 33.1h
- To 100%
- 95.7h 2.9x the story
- Achievements
- 56
Price and sales
- Sales
- 16 on record
- Typical cut
- 30% off
- Steam low
- $48.99 February 2026
- Sale every
- 38d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,780 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
97% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
16 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $29.54. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 4 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 ($9.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats WARRIORS: Abyss ($8.24, scores 60).
More about DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS
Critics scored it 84. Players sit 9 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
16 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 869 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 33.1 hours. Doing everything runs 96, 2.9 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Overall a good game with some flaws but that is the same with all Dynasty Warriors games if we are honest. I promise no story spoilers in this review. This is my first review so I am sorry if it is come across a bit scattered. Like all DW games it follows the story of the Three Kingdoms and if you have played the other games you will recognise lots of the events and battles. You play as a new character which has its...
2 more reviews
I haven't played a Dynasty Warriors game since Dynasty Warriors 4 on PS2, so I'm basically coming into Origins fresh after more than 20 years away from the series. About 5 hours in, I'm having an absolute blast. The core appeal I remember is definitely still here: jump into a huge battlefield, carve through ridiculous numbers of soldiers, hunt down officers, and somehow turn yourself into a one-man army. But Origins...
The Good: It's got the same old hack and slash goodness we come to the franchise for. Aside from spending resources on special attacks, parrying with a window that feels rather reasonable is your main source of advantage in combat. The sword you start with has the same XY attack patterns from previous installments, and the seven other weapons you acquire over the course of the game provide a variety of choices on...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Become immersed in exhilarating battles as a nameless hero in the Three Kingdoms
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2384580/dynasty-warriors-originsReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.