BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk
Skip · Action · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $59.99.
- Length
- 16h
- Value
- $3.75/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce GTS 450, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Behold the fierce blend of "Warriors" and "Berserk"!
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
October 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $23.99. 37 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 13 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 23 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition ($49.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Mortal Shell ($29.99, scores 17).
Of the 721 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 25 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 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 450 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 694 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 16 hours; clearing it takes 72, which is 4.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
89% start to 2% 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
14 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 02:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
One of my favorite musou games even if I knew nothing about the manga. Its a great mix of the old base capture maps with the current dodge and dump flavor gameplay. From the same cloth as Hyrule Warriors for example, but not like DW9. The character array is very limited and it may be the weak point of the game in comparison to its colleagues, but if you like the story from the manga or the anime, you know you could...
not what i expected but still what i expected. fun slashy game that reminds me of simpler times.
For a Berserk-fan it's probably a good purchase, you get to experience the story - especially after getting uncensor patch for it. But as a game, it's boring, repetitive and full of stupid gameplay choises. My favorite thing to hate is when your ally "retreats" and you lose the mission after whacking +2000 boring enemies and repeatedly dealing with a boss who doesn't stay dead. Lack of mouse support doesn't help...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk 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/502280/berserk-and-the-band-of-the-hawkReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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