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Way of the Samurai 3 cover art

Way of the Samurai 3

ACQUIRE Corp. · Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. · 2016-03-23

SteamGOGXboxMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 13, 2008 (PlayStation 3), Nov 13, 2008 (Xbox 360), Mar 23, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Honour, sacrifice, betrayal… Your choices make you who you are. How will history remember you? Choose your friends and enemies carefully in a game where every decision has far-reaching consequences, and where finishing the game is just the beginning of your journey…

13
playing now
75%
positive of 902 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

13 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Way of the Samurai 3 is a video game made by Acquire, released by Spike on November 13, 2008, in Japan. It was released for PlayStation 3, and later ported to the Xbox 360. It is the sequel of the PlayStation 2 games Way of the Samurai and Way of the Samurai 2. A sequel, Way of the Samurai 4, was released for the PlayStation 3 in 2011.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 36% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 23k–54k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 902 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at GOG (2021-01-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

2322026-08-11 18:00 — 5 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 6 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 6 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 7 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 9 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 15 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 6 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 8 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 8 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 10 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 12 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 23 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 6 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 7 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 11 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 13 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 6 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 9 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 14 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 13 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.992016-03-232026-07-092016-03-23 — best price $15.992016-11-29 — best price $19.992017-06-23 — best price $7.992018-01-04 — best price $19.992018-06-04 — best price $7.992018-08-02 — best price $19.992018-10-01 — best price $19.992018-12-13 — best price $5.992019-03-04 — best price $5.992019-05-06 — best price $19.992019-07-19 — best price $5.992019-11-01 — best price $19.992019-12-19 — best price $5.992020-01-31 — best price $19.992020-05-27 — best price $5.992020-08-08 — best price $19.992020-11-27 — best price $2.992021-01-05 — best price $19.992021-06-24 — best price $7.992021-12-01 — best price $19.992022-04-28 — best price $5.992022-09-20 — best price $19.992023-02-16 — best price $5.992023-05-08 — best price $19.992023-12-18 — best price $5.992024-05-06 — best price $19.992024-11-27 — best price $5.992025-01-30 — best price $19.992025-06-08 — best price $3.992025-09-08 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $3.992026-05-05 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

78282026-05-30 — 63 pageviews2026-06-02 — 47 pageviews2026-06-05 — 63 pageviews2026-06-08 — 62 pageviews2026-06-11 — 42 pageviews2026-06-14 — 48 pageviews2026-06-17 — 42 pageviews2026-06-20 — 28 pageviews2026-06-23 — 35 pageviews2026-06-26 — 38 pageviews2026-06-29 — 31 pageviews2026-07-02 — 50 pageviews2026-07-05 — 51 pageviews2026-07-08 — 36 pageviews2026-07-11 — 35 pageviews2026-07-14 — 41 pageviews2026-07-17 — 50 pageviews2026-07-20 — 36 pageviews2026-07-23 — 49 pageviews2026-07-26 — 55 pageviews2026-07-29 — 45 pageviews2026-08-01 — 48 pageviews2026-08-04 — 39 pageviews2026-08-07 — 44 pageviews2026-08-10 — 37 pageviews2026-08-13 — 52 pageviews2026-08-16 — 46 pageviews2026-08-19 — 34 pageviews2026-08-22 — 40 pageviews2026-08-25 — 29 pageviews2026-08-27 — 42 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
77.1%
earned "Killer"
8.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing3 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Japanese, French

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS3 (PlayStation)4,8246%51
PS3 (PlayStation)3,11911%51
Xbox 360 (Xbox)3,0556%50
Xbox 360 (Xbox)2,4622%50
Steam (Steam)2,1241%50

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

Player tags

RPGJRPGFunnyActionSandboxAction RPGHistoricalOpen WorldStory RichExploration

Census log

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

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