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Sword and Fairy 4

SOFTSTAR TECHNOLOGY(SHANGHAI) · SOFTSTAR ENTERTAINMENT · 2021-06-17

Steam

RPG

Franchise: The Legend of Sword and Fairy · Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 01, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

*** This game is only available in Chinese *** 《仙四》自上市至今，廣受玩家青睞，刻骨銘心的故事軸線，至今仍被各界譽為單機遊戲中的雋永之作。故事講述山野少年雲天河從小孤獨地成長，整天以追豬、玩豬、獵豬為樂。某日因為盜墓少女韓菱紗而闖入父母的神秘墓室，墓室中的奇事奇景使得山野少年踏上了尋覓往事、求仙問道的旅途……

77%
positive of 252 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$12.99
steam price (US)

Yun Tianhe (雲天河), a young man who had been living alone on a mountain peak, was on a regular boar hunting trip when he came across the young woman Han Lingsha (韓菱紗), from a clan of short-lived tomb raiders, attempting to break into his parents' tomb, culminating in the destruction of the tomb, and setting him on a journey alongside Lingsha to the outside world to uncover his parents' past. On the journey, they encountered and befriended the adopted daughter of the magistrate of Shouyang, Liu Mengli (柳梦璃), who seemed to have connections to Tianhe's father, and a skilled and kind swordmaster who(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (38 reviews).
  • · Top 37% of 11,387 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.0k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 252 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-06-17 (Steam store data)

Player tags

3DRPGDramaLinearCartoonFantasyRomanceEmotionalStory RichMartial Arts

Census log

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

Players also track

The DioField ChronicleSongs of Silence

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