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Blades of Fire cover art

Blades of Fire

MercurySteam · 505 Games · 2026-05-14

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: May 22, 2025 (PlayStation 5), May 22, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S), May 22, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A dark fantasy adventure where forging steel shapes combat, progression, and fate.

Blades of Fire is a 2026 Action, Adventure game priced at $39.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (76% of 661 reviews).

75%
positive of 715 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
83/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
54/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
2
Nexus mods (592 downloads)
3.60★
PlayStation Store rating (4,475 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$39.99
steam price (US)
Blades of Fire is a 2025 action-adventure game developed by MercurySteam and published by 505 Games. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 22 May 2025. It received mixed reviews from critics and failed to meet the sales expectations of 505 Games' parent company Digital Bros.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 70 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9/week).
  • · Review velocity down 84% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (222 reviews).
  • · Top 18% of 27,914 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 14k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 715 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $23.67 at GameBillet (2026-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 58 of 72 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
16916920262026Week of 2026-05-14: 169 positiveWeek of 2026-05-14: 53 negativeWeek of 2026-05-21: 64 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-05-28: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-06-04: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-11: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-18: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-25: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-02: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-09: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-23: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-30: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-06: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-13: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-20: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-27: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$59.99$21.822025-02-272026-08-262025-02-27 — best price $53.992025-03-24 — best price $42.112025-03-28 — best price $53.992025-04-08 — best price $53.992025-05-20 — best price $50.752025-05-26 — best price $59.992025-07-02 — best price $59.992025-09-04 — best price $47.992025-09-23 — best price $47.992025-10-02 — best price $47.992025-11-04 — best price $41.992025-11-21 — best price $47.992025-12-05 — best price $53.992025-12-19 — best price $41.992026-01-06 — best price $53.992026-02-05 — best price $41.992026-02-14 — best price $35.272026-02-26 — best price $53.992026-03-20 — best price $35.272026-03-30 — best price $41.992026-05-13 — best price $39.982026-05-17 — best price $29.792026-05-21 — best price $31.912026-06-01 — best price $33.882026-06-15 — best price $33.192026-06-24 — best price $29.612026-06-30 — best price $25.272026-07-10 — best price $32.512026-07-14 — best price $39.992026-08-04 — best price $25.592026-08-12 — best price $39.992026-08-15 — best price $32.492026-08-19 — best price $32.512026-08-24 — best price $23.892026-08-26 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.4k712026-05-29 — 187 pageviews2026-06-02 — 115 pageviews2026-06-06 — 96 pageviews2026-06-10 — 550 pageviews2026-06-14 — 171 pageviews2026-06-18 — 328 pageviews2026-06-22 — 323 pageviews2026-06-26 — 204 pageviews2026-06-30 — 427 pageviews2026-07-04 — 234 pageviews2026-07-08 — 172 pageviews2026-07-12 — 153 pageviews2026-07-16 — 100 pageviews2026-07-20 — 126 pageviews2026-07-24 — 132 pageviews2026-07-28 — 103 pageviews2026-08-01 — 71 pageviews2026-08-05 — 95 pageviews2026-08-09 — 89 pageviews2026-08-13 — 71 pageviews2026-08-17 — 105 pageviews2026-08-21 — 79 pageviews2026-08-25 — 108 pageviews2026-08-29 — 101 pageviews2026-09-02 — 112 pageviews2026-09-06 — 104 pageviews2026-09-10 — 1,350 pageviews2026-09-14 — 371 pageviews2026-09-18 — 184 pageviews2026-09-22 — 143 pageviews2026-09-26 — 130 pageviews2026-09-30 — 91 pageviews2026-10-04 — 95 pageviews2026-10-08 — 103 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

45
achievements tracked
97.1%
earned "First Forging"
11.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2026-05-14 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)4,1350%46
Xbox Series (Xbox)5700%45
Steam (Steam)3781%45

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

Census log

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

Recent updates

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