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YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z cover art

YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z

Spark Unlimited · KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. · 2014-03-21

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ActionAdventure

Franchise: Ninja Gaiden · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Mar 18, 2014 (PlayStation 3), Mar 18, 2014 (Xbox 360), Mar 21, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Step into a living comic book in this new take on the Ninja Gaiden series. Brandishing his ninja sword and the mecha weapons in his cyber arm, Yaiba slaughters zombies with brutal, over-the-top abandon. Will you slice enemies to pieces, crush them with Yaiba's cyborg arm or just rip off a zombie’s arms to use as nunchucks?

YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z is an Action and Adventure game released in 2014, priced at $29.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (64% of 1010 reviews).

1
playing now
64%
positive of 1.0k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
46/100
critic score (12 outlets, IGDB)
65/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
3
Nexus mods (256 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is a 2014 action-adventure game and a spin-off of the Ninja Gaiden franchise. It was published by Tecmo Koei and developed by Spark Unlimited. Comcept's Keiji Inafune conceptualized the game, providing character designs and creating the character of Yaiba. The game was released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows worldwide in March 2014.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 53 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 27,668 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 25k–61k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,010 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Newegg (2022-04-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
464620172026Week of 2017-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$2.492015-01-012026-05-052015-01-01 — best price $10.192015-06-11 — best price $10.192015-10-12 — best price $29.992015-11-25 — best price $8.992015-12-23 — best price $14.992016-01-15 — best price $8.992016-05-20 — best price $29.992016-08-06 — best price $26.992016-10-28 — best price $8.992016-11-29 — best price $29.992017-02-09 — best price $5.992017-07-05 — best price $29.992017-11-28 — best price $29.992018-02-15 — best price $5.992018-06-22 — best price $5.992018-07-24 — best price $5.102018-11-21 — best price $5.992018-11-27 — best price $29.992019-02-08 — best price $29.992019-03-11 — best price $29.992019-11-01 — best price $29.992020-03-24 — best price $26.992021-04-22 — best price $2.992021-06-24 — best price $7.992022-05-09 — best price $29.992023-11-02 — best price $29.992024-01-29 — best price $29.992025-06-09 — best price $2.992026-04-23 — best price $2.592026-05-05 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

88362026-05-29 — 40 pageviews2026-06-02 — 53 pageviews2026-06-06 — 71 pageviews2026-06-10 — 49 pageviews2026-06-14 — 62 pageviews2026-06-18 — 67 pageviews2026-06-22 — 58 pageviews2026-06-26 — 55 pageviews2026-06-30 — 55 pageviews2026-07-04 — 65 pageviews2026-07-08 — 66 pageviews2026-07-12 — 70 pageviews2026-07-16 — 68 pageviews2026-07-20 — 69 pageviews2026-07-24 — 44 pageviews2026-07-28 — 60 pageviews2026-08-01 — 59 pageviews2026-08-05 — 88 pageviews2026-08-09 — 49 pageviews2026-08-13 — 56 pageviews2026-08-17 — 47 pageviews2026-08-21 — 36 pageviews2026-08-25 — 52 pageviews2026-08-29 — 64 pageviews2026-09-02 — 73 pageviews2026-09-06 — 64 pageviews2026-09-10 — 55 pageviews2026-09-14 — 72 pageviews2026-09-18 — 62 pageviews2026-09-22 — 55 pageviews2026-09-26 — 64 pageviews2026-09-30 — 51 pageviews2026-10-04 — 46 pageviews2026-10-07 — 64 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

49
achievements tracked
92.8%
earned "Slight Turbulence"
9.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS3 (PlayStation)6,7686%50
Xbox 360 (Xbox)3,5023%49
Steam (Steam)2,3262%49

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

Player tags

GoreNinjaActionComedyZombiesAdventureDifficultBeat 'em upSingleplayerThird Person

Census log

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

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