X-Blades
Skip · RPG · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $12.99.
- Length
- 6.8h
- Value
- $1.91/hr
- Reviews
- 61% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, with Shader 2.0 support and 128 MB RAM (Geforce FX 7+, ATI Radeon X2-series), 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
In X-Blades, the player takes on the role of the enchanting heroine Ayumi, who survives a breathtaking dance of blades through the Hordes of Darkness. The long-haired beautiful anime, with her pistol blades and mind-blowing leaps, whirls and swirls from one fantastic level to the next.
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was October 2014. It has been discounted 111 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Darksiders III ($39.99, scores 35) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($19.99, scores 1).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 503 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 49 percent of everything written about it.
Players
132 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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X-Blades scores 9/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/7510/x-bladesThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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