SOULCALIBUR VI
Skip · Action · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $59.99.
- Length
- 6.9h
- Value
- $8.69/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Bring more than your fists to the fight! Featuring all-new battle mechanics and characters, SOULCALIBUR VI marks a new era of the historic franchise. Welcome back to the stage of history!
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was November 2022. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 60 in the 8 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 39 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mortal Kombat 11 ($49.99, scores 40) beats it on value, while it beats Injustice™ 2 ($49.99, scores 33).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 23 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 1,010 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 6.9 hours. Doing everything runs 39, 5.6 times as long.
The drop-off
43% start to 1% 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
119 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
It's super fun, creative and different if you like fighting games with a fantasy twist this is the game for you!
Mitsurugi 4 life A legendary title from a legendary series. Why are you even reading reviews, it's Soulcalibur, it's what it says on the box! 10/10 HIYAHHH
ranked mode is dead and you have to play against people with over 1k hours in casual mode so its basically impossible to play online as a newcomer since you'll just get destroyed or won't get a match at all.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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SOULCALIBUR VI scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/544750/soulcalibur-viThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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