Jade Empire™: Special Edition
Skip · RPG · 2007
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Reviews
- 76% positive
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Windows only.
Step into the role of an aspiring martial-arts master and follow the path of the open palm or the closed fist.
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was May 2023. It has been discounted 66 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 46 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition ($7.49, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Dragon Age™: The Veilguard ($20.99, scores 22).
This site sampled 483 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 496 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Players
3 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Jade Empire™: Special Edition scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/7110/jade-empire-special-editionThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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