Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9990% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.61/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 38,559
- Critics
- 85 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 24.9h
- To 100%
- 56.5h 2.3x the story
- Finish
- 6% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 44
Price and sales
- Sales
- 97 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 February 2021
- Sale every
- 33d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 51 now
- Recent reviews
- 93% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
39% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 97 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $34.44. The record reaches that level 96 times.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Desperados III ($39.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice ($19.99, scores 57).
More about Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Critics scored it 85. Players sit 11 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 24.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 1,832 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 24.9 hours. Doing everything runs 57, 2.3 times as long.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 11 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
What players say
Great Game Too good to be true in 2016: - game is thrilling fun for many hours - beautiful look - nice English or Japanese voice-acting - all texts are translated in many different languages - superb soundtrack - still works on small PCs, Macs and Linux-Systems without bugs - offers you a demo where you can play 1.5 hours for free
1 more review
Pretty nice game for its genre. But I can't help comparing it to Desperados 3 since I played this game right after finishing that one. And making that comparison really gives this game a bad look for me. For sure, this game came out much before Desperados 3 but I don't believe the release date has anything to do with the problems I have about this game. My point here is not just speaking ill of this game; Blade of...
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About the game
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GT640, AMD Radeon HD7750, 1GB Vram, 13 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/418240/shadow-tactics-blades-of-the-shogunReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.