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Stray Blade

Point Blank Games · 505 Games · 2023-04-20

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ActionAdventureRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Apr 20, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Apr 20, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Apr 20, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Stray Blade is an action-adventure where you play a rogue Adventurer exploring the ancient Valley of Acrea with your companion, the Xhinnon wolf Boji. Unveil the history of the forgotten valley and master the powers of the three Acrean Metals to restore balance to this war-torn land.

72%
positive of 530 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
58/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$7.99
steam price (US)
Stray Blade is an action role-playing video game developed by Point Blank Games and published by 505 Games in 2023.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 21 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 75% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (165 reviews).
  • · Top 31% of 16,648 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 11k–24k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 530 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$6.31-82%
GOG$7.99-60%
Microsoft Store$7.99-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.60 at GreenManGaming (2025-11-20) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 3 of 4 observed days · $2.39 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
11311320232026Week of 2023-04-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
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

52
achievements tracked
85.2%
earned "Self-Defence"
13.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportFamily Sharing2 DLC

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

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2023-04-20, latest 2023-11-15 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)3,6736%53
Xbox Series (Xbox)6711%52
Steam (Steam)3684%52

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

Player tags

3DActionCombatViolentColorfulDifficultControllerSouls-likeExplorationMetroidvania

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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