Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
Worth it · Action · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $59.99, a BANGER if it drops to $37.66.
- Length
- 30.3h
- Value
- $1.98/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 | AMD Radeon HD 7950, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $29.99. That was June 2021. It has been discounted 38 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 10 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $37.66 BANGER line 25 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DARK SOULS™ III ($59.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT ($59.99, scores 69).
14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 7,257 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 30.3 hours; clearing it takes 70, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
7 years after release it still had 6.8K people in it at once.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
94% start to 13% 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
Players
6,767 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
bu oyun önerilmez mi ya lütfen... best game ever derim gecerim. ayrıca babamı dövdüm oyunda hell yeah!! bir sey daha eklemek istiyorum dark souls 3'ten sonra beni en çok eglendiren souls kesinlikle sekiro. asırı asırı eglenceli boss'lar var, bu yüzden kesinlikle denenmeli.
Sekiro one of the games that do not let you leave because it is so good that you want to finish it. Battle mechanic is one of the best if not the best in the game industry. You can`t grind to boost your character level and you must pass all bosses on your pure skill and experience! Hesitation is defeat!
I picked up Sekiro because it was made by "FromSoftware", the same studio behind Elden Ring, which I absolutely loved after 300+ hours on PS5. And Sekiro did not disappoint. The combat is the real masterpiece here, learning to perfectly parry enemy attacks and hearing that crisp metallic clink never gets old. The Prosthetic Tools and the Stealth mechanics give you more ways to approach enemies. The optimization is...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/814380/sekiro-shadows-die-twice-goty-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 6, price as of Sep 24.
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