The Spirit of the Samurai

Digital Mind Games · 2024-12-12

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Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Dec 12, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A village in peril. A samurai reanimated. An Oni advancing. Fight an army of undead warriors and Japanese monsters as a human, a Kodama, and a cat in this 2D stop-motion action adventure.

The Spirit of the Samurai is an Action, Adventure, and Indie game released in 2024, priced at $4.99, with an estimated owner base of 0 .. 20,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (61% of 494 reviews).

62%

positive of 502 reviews

Mixed

steam's rating (official)

0–20,000

owners (SteamSpy est.)

70/100

critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)

time to beat (IGDB)

pending

deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)

Verified

Steam Deck (Valve)

SteamOS: Playable

$4.99

steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet

· 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
· Review velocity up 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
· Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (113 reviews).
· Top 20% of 28,952 Action games in the census by review count.

Estimated sales: 10k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 502 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Fanatical (2026-04-28) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative

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

Price history

Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

achievements tracked

95.9%

earned "The tree spirit"

16.1%

median achievement earned by

· 95.9% of players earned The tree spirit
· 16.1% of players earned The flying cat
· 2.4% of players earned Kunai master

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-12-12 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

Platform	Players tracked	Completion	Trophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)	321	8%	20

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

Player tags

2D Gore Indie Ninja Action Combat Violent Adventure Cinematic Swordplay

Census log

2024-12-12First review activity on record (week of 2024-12-12).
2024-12-12Biggest review week on record: 113 reviews (week of 2024-12-12).

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

Recent updates

2026-08-22Open Beta Update V1.1.0.3
2026-07-01Patch #5: Open Beta & Fixes

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Similarity via IGDB.

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