BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend

Fair · Action · 2014

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 6 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$2.9985% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$2.13/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 1,658
Genre rank
Top 5% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 23% off ($15.47) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
9.4h
To 100%
38.5h 4.1x the story
Finish
7% reach the ending
Achievements
50

Price and sales

Sales
104 on record
Typical cut
85% off
Steam low
$1.49 February 2021
Sale every
39d last April 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
3 now
Cheaper than
6% of its genre
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

26% start to 7% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

104 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 85 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 28 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lethal League ($13.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Mortal Kombat 11 ($49.99, scores 40).

More about BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend

Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 346 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 221 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 9.4 hours; clearing it takes 39, which is 4.1 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 195 days ago.

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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement7% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.13/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 346 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

mu-12's tight butt distracted me from the story and the gameplay. thanks a lot mori.
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 143hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

The second entry in the critically acclaimed BlazBlue franchise, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend adds a number of gameplay modes, story scenarios, new moves, and an all-new playable character to further enhance the BlazBlue experience and solidify its status as one of the all-time great 2D fighters
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/294810/blazblue-continuum-shift-extend
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Reviews 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 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperArc System Works
PublisherArc System Works
GenreAction
Released2014
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements50