Half Sword
Skip · Action · 2026 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews▼
- 73% of 31,120
- Genre rank
- Top 62% Action
Holding it back: Early access, Refunds
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10h
- To 100%
- 15.3h 1.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 5 on record
- Typical cut
- 10% off
- Steam low
- $19.99 January 2026
- Sale every
- 66d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 666 now
- Recent reviews
- 74% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 4% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 44% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 5 times in the 9 months tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 10 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, OxyRail ($14.99, scores 30) beats it on value, while it beats Breakwaters: Crystal Tides ($19.99, scores 6).
More about Half Sword
This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 39 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 232 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 5 of the 39 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 6,619 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 29 days ago.
- 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
About the game
Half Sword is a physics-based medieval combat simulator featuring historically accurate XV-century arms and armor. We are not afraid to show the brutal nature of medieval combat with in-depth blood and gore features.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB), AMD Radeon RX 580, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Half Sword scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2397300/half-swordReviews 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.