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Shin Samurai Jazz cover art

Shin Samurai Jazz

Blaze Epic · 2015-03-16

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 16, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Shin Samurai Jazz is a platform-adventure game. It combines the likes of film noir and samurai cinema, presenting them with 8-bit graphics, an electro-jazz soundtrack, and a comic/manga-like style creating a unique atmosphere.

66%
positive of 95 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 47% of 21,336 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 95 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.24 at IndieGala Store (2016-03-14) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920152026Week of 2015-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

AnimeIndieRetroActionAdventurePlatformerPixel Graphics

Census log

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