DYNASTY WARRIORS 9
Skip · Action · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $44.99.
- Length
- 29h
- Value
- $1.55/hr
- Reviews
- 36% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or over, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Experience the thrill of one versus thousands in an all new open world setting with DYNASTY WARRIORS 9! Travel through Ancient China depicted on a single, vast, open-world map, master the new State Combo System, and watch the Three Kingdoms story unfold through a cast of 90 playable characters!
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
The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $17.99. It has been discounted 5 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 85 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. NINJA GAIDEN Σ2 [NINJA GAIDEN: Master Collection] ($19.99, scores 35) and NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black ($19.99, scores 43) both outscore it.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 760 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 11 percent of the 1,419 reviews written there were positive, against 36 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
29 hours to finish it, 148 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
30% start to 4% rarestNo 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
What players say
To fix slowdown on Deck, set V-sync to 2, turn OFF Particles, and set the rest of the graphics settings to medium or low. I know this game is contentious, but frankly idc. I love this game.
Do NOT go into this game thinking it'll be like other Dynasty Warriors, or Warriors games in general. With a wide open, long, often barren map, this game plays very differently. The amount of content isn't terrible, but the actual content itself is mediocre. One of the great things they offer is the Chinese audio for characters and voice over; it's far better in contrast to the MISERABLE English voice acting. I...
not terrible if you get it heavily discounted, but koei needs to give this and 9 empires more discounts if they want them to sell
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/730310/dynasty-warriors-9Reviews 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 17, price as of Sep 22.
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