Blade Strangers
Skip · Action · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$6.46Fair
- Length
- 2h 17.1h to 100%
- Value
- $10.00/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 392 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.46 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
A malevolent force known only as Lina is devouring data from a vast, interdimensional network of servers overseen by sentient computers called ”motes.” In desperation, the motes summon heroes from a variety of parallel game worlds to face off against each other in one-on-one combat.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.1 compliant video card, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
45 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 31 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fraymakers ($19.99, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats Mortal Kombat 1 ($9.99, scores 32).
More about Blade Strangers
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 267 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 161 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2 hours. Doing everything runs 17, 8.6 times as long.
The drop-off
61% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
I bought this game at launch. I even bought a switch copy of it that came with a Kawase keychain. I never really noticed the detail put into some of the characters until recently. Despite being a Solange main, I can't help but to enjoy the visual designs as well as the mechanics that a few of these characters have. More often then not when I try a certain character, I see what the devs were going for when creating...
1 more review
Brought this just to play as Isaac from the Binding of Isaac. It was worth the 2 bucks I spent on it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Blade Strangers scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/565170/blade-strangersReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.