X-Blades
Skip · RPG · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 9, under the fair line, at $12.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.91/hr
- Reviews▼
- 62% of 3,228
- Critics
- 54 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 90% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.8h
- To 100%
- 10.8h 1.6x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 113 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 October 2014
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 31% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 8% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 113 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.
It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Darksiders III ($5.99, scores 47) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($39.99, scores 0).
More about X-Blades
54 from critics against 62 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 502 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 48 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 6 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I mean do we really need to say anything? I mean the game was sold basically for the cover and for the protagonist alone, we know, I know, I bought it at the time for that reason too, but it's actually good? ....nah I mean there are worse game out there but it's not that great. The story of x-blades is about ayumi a treasure hunter that after finding a ancient map that reveals an old temple on an island goes there...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
X-Blades scores 9/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/7510/x-bladesReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.