Way of the Samurai 3
Skip · Action · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Length
- 5.7h
- Value
- $0.35/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 90% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 80% ($3.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 90% ($1.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 512Mb RAM and support for v3 shaders, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Honour, sacrifice, betrayal… Your choices make you who you are. How will history remember you? Choose your friends and enemies carefully in a game where every decision has far-reaching consequences, and where finishing the game is just the beginning of your journey…
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in February 2021. 66 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 25 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Way of the Samurai 4 ($2.49, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Han Xiongnu Wars ($6.99, scores 5).
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 9 of the 459 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,802 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 625 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 160 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.7 hours. Doing everything runs 73, 13 times as long.
The drop-off
77% start to 27% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Shuzen Fujimori, you are the root of all evil, bastard!!! I love this game, it is a very short game in story wise, but the ideia here is that you have a lot of different endings and many side quest you can discover, I love this game and it has a special space in my heart, I played this game a lot ind Xbox 360 also and when steam launched here I had to buy it, love it. If you are into samurai games buy it without...
I really enjoyed this game when it came out for Xbox 360 and played dozens of hours, so I'm happy to find it here
Crash after smithing, no way to resolve it. Just crash, cannot even start a new game.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Way of the Samurai 3 scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/427510/way-of-the-samurai-3Reviews 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 2.
A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.