Mugen Souls

Mugen Souls

Skip · RPG · 2015

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 28, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
25.1h 438.6h to 100%
Value
$0.80/hr
Reviews
70% of 290 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
7% of players unlock the ending achievement on a 25.1-hour game.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$0.80/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement7% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews70% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 47 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

About the game

Mugen Souls features a free-roaming battle map, turn-based combat, and massive amounts of customization and growth to maximize the fun players can have with the game.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 512Mb RAM and support for v3 shaders, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

58 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fuga: Melodies of Steel ($39.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Lost Eidolons ($34.99, scores 22).

More about Mugen Souls

Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 25.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

Finishing takes 25.1 hours; clearing it takes 439, which is 17 times the campaign.

The drop-off

89% start to 7% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

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

What players say

If The Disgaea And Neptunia Franchise Had An Autistic Baby, It Would Be Mugen Souls ...
ꜷu☆dereRecommendedafter 30hFeb 2026Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Gameplay, characters and story are fun. Unfortunately this piece of crap keeps crashing and crashing and I'm sick of losing progress all the time because there aren't enough possibilities to save.
SoundOfDarknessNot recommendedafter 16hJan 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Mugen Souls scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/389870/mugen-souls
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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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIdea Factory
PublisherGhostlight LTD
GenreRPG
Released2015
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements51