SOULCALIBUR VI

SOULCALIBUR VI

Skip · Action · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Under the fair line 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

$59.99Skip

Typical seasonal cut

$5.9990% offFair

Cost per hour▼
$8.69/hr
Reviews▼
83% of 14,437
Critics
80 players 3 higher
Genre rank
Top 38% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
6.9h
To 100%
38.7h 5.6x the story
Achievements
49

Price and sales

Sales
62 on record
Typical cut
85% off
Steam low
$5.99 November 2022
Sale every
45d last October 2026
Lowest now $5.39 at Fanaticalall-time low $4.59 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
86 now
Recent reviews
85% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
87% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

43% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 62 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 2 days ago.

Its score sits in the top 38 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 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 32).

More about SOULCALIBUR VI

Of the 300 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 1,017 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.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 2 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

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$8.69/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds1 of 300 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

SoulCalibur 6 is so far the final instalment of the SoulCalibur series, and if I'm honest it's easy to see why. When this game launched it launched with maybe 1/3 of the character customization options as 5, and with a long, bloated, and oftentimes horrendously unfun single player campaign. Then the DLC started. "Here, you can have some of the last game's DLC back... pay us again." A drip feed of cosmetic DLC into a...
FerroxideRecommendedafter 49h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Soulcalibur is Soulcalibur as ever, but I bought this game for the character creation, which is probably the most disappointing it's ever been. Way too few options, way too many of which are gender-locked, even with the season pass. Even with the bare-bones (and at times barely functional) color and sticker system, it feels like fighting the limited options to make anything your own. Plus everything either just...
KefkeNot recommendedafter 6.6h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
SOULCALIBUR VI scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/544750/soulcalibur-vi
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+3
Critics80
Players83
Metacritic critics · 14,437 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperBANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.
PublisherBANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
GenreAction
Released2018
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements49