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Way of the Samurai 4 cover art

Way of the Samurai 4

ACQUIRE Corp. · Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. · 2015-07-23

SteamGOG

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 23, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 21, 2012 (PlayStation 3)

Way of the Samurai 4 takes place in the humble port town of Amihama during the mid 19th Century, several years after the arrival of the “black ships” from the West ended Japan’s long history of cultural isolation.

18
playing now
77%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

18 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Way of the Samurai 4 is a video game developed by Acquire and published by Spike for the PlayStation 3. It was released in Japan on March 3, 2011.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 25% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 52k–125k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,076 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at GOG (2021-01-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

3342026-08-06 23:00 — 14 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 15 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 17 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 16 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 18 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 33 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 17 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 30 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 27 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 15 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 23 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 30 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 15 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 30 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 25 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 13 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 20 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 24 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 11 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 20 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 12 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 14 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 24 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 12 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 14 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 23 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 12 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 18 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$2.492015-07-162026-07-092015-07-16 — best price $14.992015-11-25 — best price $12.492015-12-10 — best price $24.992016-01-22 — best price $24.992016-05-10 — best price $12.492016-08-05 — best price $9.992016-11-23 — best price $12.492017-02-20 — best price $12.492017-05-11 — best price $9.992017-09-07 — best price $9.992017-12-27 — best price $24.992018-05-10 — best price $9.992018-07-25 — best price $6.242018-09-17 — best price $6.242018-11-21 — best price $7.492019-01-10 — best price $7.492019-03-12 — best price $24.992019-06-18 — best price $24.992019-08-25 — best price $24.992019-10-28 — best price $7.492019-12-11 — best price $7.492020-01-31 — best price $24.992020-05-27 — best price $7.492020-10-26 — best price $4.992020-12-16 — best price $6.242021-02-11 — best price $2.492021-06-28 — best price $24.992021-12-22 — best price $7.492022-06-24 — best price $7.492022-12-22 — best price $7.492023-04-27 — best price $7.492023-12-18 — best price $7.492024-06-27 — best price $7.492024-12-19 — best price $7.492025-04-25 — best price $4.992025-08-25 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $4.992026-06-04 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

59212026-05-30 — 33 pageviews2026-06-02 — 31 pageviews2026-06-05 — 54 pageviews2026-06-08 — 52 pageviews2026-06-11 — 33 pageviews2026-06-14 — 36 pageviews2026-06-17 — 27 pageviews2026-06-20 — 32 pageviews2026-06-23 — 40 pageviews2026-06-26 — 29 pageviews2026-06-29 — 30 pageviews2026-07-02 — 45 pageviews2026-07-05 — 43 pageviews2026-07-08 — 40 pageviews2026-07-11 — 30 pageviews2026-07-14 — 30 pageviews2026-07-17 — 46 pageviews2026-07-20 — 41 pageviews2026-07-23 — 47 pageviews2026-07-26 — 40 pageviews2026-07-29 — 41 pageviews2026-08-01 — 37 pageviews2026-08-04 — 28 pageviews2026-08-07 — 40 pageviews2026-08-10 — 34 pageviews2026-08-13 — 48 pageviews2026-08-16 — 51 pageviews2026-08-19 — 43 pageviews2026-08-22 — 41 pageviews2026-08-25 — 38 pageviews2026-08-26 — 36 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
82.5%
earned "First Kill"
6.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing8 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,9501%50

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

Player tags

3DRPGJRPGActionSandboxAction RPGHistoricalOpen WorldExplorationThird Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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