Within the blade

Within the blade

Fair · Action · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $10.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
4.3h
Value
$2.56/hr
Reviews
86% of 355 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Holding it back
Value$2.56/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews86% 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
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 111 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

About the game

Bloody stealth platformer, about the ninja in which you cut the enemies into pieces.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 102 MB of memory, 128MB graphics. Windows only.

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $7.69. That was August 2018. It has been discounted 28 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 7 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Katana ZERO ($14.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats BLADECHIMERA ($14.99, scores 50).

The drop-off

35% start to <1% 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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Within the blade scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/622870/within-the-blade
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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 29, price as of Oct 12. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAmetist studio
PublisherAmetist studio
GenreAction
Released2019
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements78