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Blade Strangers cover art

Blade Strangers

Studio Saizensen · Nicalis, Inc. · 2018-08-27

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Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 27, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 30, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 28, 2018 (PlayStation 4)

A malevolent force known only as Lina is devouring data from a vast, interdimensional network of servers overseen by sentient computers called ”motes.” In desperation, the motes summon heroes from a variety of parallel game worlds to face off against each other in one-on-one combat.

80%
positive of 393 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)
Blade Strangers is a 2D crossover fighting game developed by Studio Saizensen and published by Nicalis, released on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows via Steam in August 2018, as well as a Japanese arcade release. It features one-on-one combat between several characters from various independent video game franchises.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 45 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity up 55% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 26% of 23,019 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.8k–24k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 393 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
61.3%
earned "Combo Master"
3.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportRemote Play on TVRemote Play Together

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,1572%50
PS4 (PlayStation)91616%50
Switch (Nintendo)320%0
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

AnimeActionArcadeFighting2D Fighter

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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