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2011 · Choose Your Own Adventure · JRPG · Historical

How long isWay of the Samurai 4?

by ACQUIRE Corp.

16 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 4 hours and 41 hours

On the long side for an action-adventure: 16 hours for the typical player, longer than 326 of 408 action-adventures here.

Does Way of the Samurai 4 hold up?

Grows on people

Do the first two hours of Way of the Samurai 4 tell you?

In the first two hours31%recommend it

After that88%recommend it

9 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 11 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 16 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 4 hours and 41 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 2,110 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It grows on people: 82% recommend it at 5–10 hours, and 93% at 50–100 hours.

19% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 31% of those recommend it. After the window, 88% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 43% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 1 hour in.

When would you get there?

16days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 16 hours on Thursday, November 5.

Half of its reviewers had played between 4 and 41 hours: Oct 24 to Nov 30 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Is Way of the Samurai 4 worth it?

Is Way of the Samurai 4 worth it? Yes.

  • Good value

    1.6× the hours of a typical action-adventure, for the same money

  • Liked

    88% recommend it after the refund windowmost action-adventures: 89%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $24.99, the typical player's 16 hours come to $1.56 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 88% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.56 an hour, Way of the Samurai 4 is cheaper per hour than 290 of 408 action-adventures here: the typical one of 408 action-adventures here charges $2.45, so the same $24.99 buys 1.6× the hours.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (action-adventures) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Would you like Way of the Samurai 4?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Way of the Samurai 4, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Way of the Samurai 4 would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

Games like Way of the Samurai 4

All 30 games like Way of the Samurai 4, and which you already own
How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.