NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence - Ascension
Skip · Strategy · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $59.99.
- Reviews
- 71% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, VRAM 128MB over, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
In the simulation game series "Nobunaga's Ambition", players aim to unify Japan in the troubled times of the Warring States era. In this release we include "Officer Play" for the first time in the series, allowing players to advance from retainer to Castle Lord and then on to Daimyo.
What drives the score
How to read this
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
June 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $23.99. 28 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 17 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 17 weeks.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Souzou ($24.99, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII ($17.99, scores 4).
This site sampled 361 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
85% start to 14% 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
Players
235 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).
Cite this score
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NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence - Ascension scores 19/100 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/375450/nobunaga-s-ambition-sphere-of-influence-ascensionThe 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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