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Jade Empire™: Special Edition cover art

Jade Empire™: Special Edition

BioWare · 2007-02-27

SteamGOGMicrosoft Store

RPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 18, 2008 (Mac), Nov 15, 2016 (Android), Oct 05, 2016 (iOS), Feb 27, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Step into the role of an aspiring martial-arts master and follow the path of the open palm or the closed fist.

12
playing now
76%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (82 ratings)
24h
to beat · completionist 60h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

12 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Jade Empire is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare, originally published by Microsoft Game Studios in 2005 as an Xbox exclusive. It was later ported to Microsoft Windows personal computers (PC) and published by 2K in 2007. Later ports to macOS (2008) and mobile platforms (2016) were handled respectively by TransGaming and Aspyr. In a world inspired by Chinese mythology, players control the last surviving Spirit Monk on a quest to save their tutor Master Li and defeat the dark forces behind his kidnapping. The Spirit Monk is guided through a linear narrative, completing quests and engaging in action-based combat. With morality-based dialogue choices during conversations, the player can impact both story and gameplay progression in various ways.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 25% of 6,151 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 83k–166k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,070 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00
GOG$3.75-75%
GOG$3.75-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.75-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.49 at EA Store (2023-05-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 40 of 65 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1722026-08-06 22:00 — 15 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 12 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 10 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 13 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 13 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 16 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 13 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 11 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 11 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 8 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 17 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 8 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 6 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 13 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 8 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 9 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 10 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 9 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 9 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 12 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$34.95$0.002015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $7.492015-06-13 — best price $14.992015-10-20 — best price $14.992015-11-25 — best price $3.742016-06-08 — best price $2.992016-12-22 — best price $3.742017-06-06 — best price $2.992017-12-12 — best price $3.742018-06-04 — best price $3.792018-09-21 — best price $3.742019-01-03 — best price $14.992019-06-25 — best price $3.742020-01-22 — best price $3.742020-08-25 — best price $3.792021-01-05 — best price $14.992021-06-25 — best price $3.742021-12-01 — best price $14.992022-02-21 — best price $14.992022-08-22 — best price $3.742022-11-22 — best price $3.742023-03-23 — best price $14.992023-07-04 — best price $14.992023-11-28 — best price $14.992024-03-20 — best price $3.742024-06-19 — best price $3.742024-10-25 — best price $14.992025-01-24 — best price $3.742025-03-27 — best price $14.992025-06-20 — best price $3.742025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-12-04 — best price $14.992026-02-10 — best price $14.992026-04-03 — best price $14.992026-06-01 — best price $3.752026-08-13 — best price $3.752026-08-29 — best price $3.752026-08-30 — best price $3.75
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4111312026-05-29 — 198 pageviews2026-06-01 — 172 pageviews2026-06-04 — 159 pageviews2026-06-07 — 213 pageviews2026-06-10 — 201 pageviews2026-06-13 — 157 pageviews2026-06-16 — 187 pageviews2026-06-19 — 197 pageviews2026-06-22 — 248 pageviews2026-06-25 — 189 pageviews2026-06-28 — 215 pageviews2026-07-01 — 186 pageviews2026-07-04 — 187 pageviews2026-07-07 — 411 pageviews2026-07-10 — 192 pageviews2026-07-13 — 200 pageviews2026-07-16 — 179 pageviews2026-07-19 — 221 pageviews2026-07-22 — 216 pageviews2026-07-25 — 190 pageviews2026-07-28 — 176 pageviews2026-07-31 — 221 pageviews2026-08-03 — 195 pageviews2026-08-06 — 201 pageviews2026-08-09 — 239 pageviews2026-08-12 — 159 pageviews2026-08-15 — 169 pageviews2026-08-18 — 172 pageviews2026-08-21 — 157 pageviews2026-08-24 — 181 pageviews2026-08-26 — 202 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

RPGActionFantasyRomanceAdventureAction RPGStory RichMartial ArtsSingleplayerThird Person

Census log

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

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