SAMURAI WARRIORS: Spirit of Sanada

SAMURAI WARRIORS: Spirit of Sanada

Fair · Action · 2017

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $49.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
22.5h
Value
$2.22/hr
Reviews
85% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Cite this score
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
22.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
45.3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.22
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$49.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
85%
749 reviews, as of Sep 28
Players
10K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce GTS 450 or better, 27 GB of storage. Windows only.

Struggle for survival. Death before surrender! Experience the dramatic story and epic, action-packed battles of the Sanada clan during Japan's Warring States period.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Value$2.22/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length23 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds3 of 346 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $19.99, set in September 2022. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 24 in the 9 years tracked, about 13 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DYNASTY WARRIORS 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition ($49.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Nioh: Complete Edition ($49.99, scores 52).

Of the 346 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

22.5 hours to finish it, 45 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.

The drop-off

84% start to 8% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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SAMURAI WARRIORS: Spirit of Sanada scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/595740/samurai-warriors-spirit-of-sanada
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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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

ActionMusouHack and SlashHistoricalAnime
Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperKOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
PublisherKOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
GenreAction
Released2017
Achievements51