Stranger of Sword City
Skip · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 19, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 46h 80.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.43/hr
- Reviews
- 66% of 639 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 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
About the game
Your flight crashes after passing through a mysterious portal. As the sole survivor, you awaken to an unfamiliar land lit by stars you’ve never seen. This land is Escario. Quickly marked as the Chosen One, the Stranger of Sword City, you must defend this place, and choose your allegiances carefully...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, VRAM 256MB, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 65 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Bard's Tale Trilogy ($14.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeon Rushers ($14.99, scores 10).
More about Stranger of Sword City
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
82% start to 3% 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
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Sep 26, 14:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I bought this game impulsively after seeing a video about it and liked it fairly well at first. The more I played it though, the more I came to dislike it. My main issue with the game is really just the lives/age/attribute rolling stuff for characters. Characters young enough to have spare lives feel weak, and losing a life feels like a waste worth reloading a save. On the other hand, playing with old characters you...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Both times I played it separately(years apart) it randomly crashed and I lost a lot of progress. Im good, thanks
Stranger of Sword City, developed by Experience Inc. and published by NIS America, Inc., is a dungeon-crawling RPG that makes no effort to soften its edges for a modern audience. It is rooted firmly in the traditions of classic first-person RPGs, drawing heavily from the Wizardry lineage, and it embraces that heritage with a level of commitment that can feel both admirable and daunting. From the moment it...
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Cite this score
Stranger of Sword City scores 19/100 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/409890/stranger-of-sword-cityReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.