The Spirit of the Samurai Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-11-03
- Beautiful distinctive stop-motion visuals
- Highly enjoyable fun gameplay
- Engaging interesting story
- Clunky unresponsive controls
- Clunky imprecise combat
- Numerous bugs and glitches
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mixed (5/10)
- Total reviews
- 505
- Positive
- 31161.6%
- Negative
- 19438.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 40,357
- Estimated revenue
- $806,736
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 428.32%
- Estimated copies lost
- 3,356
- Estimated revenue lost
- $67,086
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 428.3% Avg playtime 1h | 397.7% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 15230.1% Avg playtime 7.5h | 27253.9% Avg playtime 10.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.2 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 64.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 690.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
505 total
Organic purchasers41782.6%
Voted up: 60%
Key activations8817.4%
Voted up: 67%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
505 total
First impression0-2h11222.2%
Voted up: 61%
Mid game2-10h30259.8%
Voted up: 59%
Late game10-20h8216.2%
Voted up: 74%
Endgame20h+91.78%
Voted up: 56%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
57.4%
Global baseline 61.6%
47 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 505 total.