NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Souzou
Skip · Strategy · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $24.99.
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, VRAM 128MB or better, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The 14th entry of the the historical simulation series "Nobunaga's Ambition." Become a daimyō of the Warring States era, and unite the land! With "the creation of a new age" as the key concept, this title features beautifully recreated castle towns, dynamic battlefield action and dramatic event scenes.
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was March 2024. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 22 in the 12 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ultimate General: Civil War ($29.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence - Ascension ($59.99, scores 19).
1 of the 380 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
Players
60 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Souzou scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/292990/nobunaga-s-ambition-souzouThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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