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AWAKEN - Astral Blade
AWAKEN - Astral Blade is a 2.5D action-adventure metroidvania where you play as Tania, a bionic warrior fighting through a world twisted by Karpas energy. Master parries, upgrade your abilities, and survive relentless enemies and bosses. Is there any chance of survival in such a desperate place?
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
“Awaken: Astral Blade is a Chinese Metroidvania that draws heavy inspiration from Nier: Automata in both character design and plot. While it doesn’t reach the same narrative heights or existential depth as its muse, it remains a solid experience for fans of the genre. What you…”
— a player, Steam review · 38 hrs played“Awaken - Astral Blade is a solid pick for fans of hack & slash metroidvanias. The game features a nice art style, attractive character design, challenging bosses, and satisfying combo mechanics. Combat feels fluid, and overall control is responsive. Its biggest strength, in my…”
— a player, Steam review · 31 hrs played“I got bored half way through. MV is one of my favorite genres, and all I ask is that a game to have 3 of any of this 5 things to hook me; good exploration, good visuals, good combat/movement, good story and good music. This game might only have 1, the visuals, but not that good…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Help AWAKEN – Astral Blade Win the Labor of Love Award!
Every moment you’ve spent following Tania’s story, and enjoying the updates and the new content we’ve added means so much to us. This game continues to grow and live because of your support and belief
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AWAKEN — Astral Blade | New Update is Live!
It’s been a while since our last update, but the time has come! We’re excited to bring you a brand-new patch for Awaken - Astral Blade , focusing on gameplay polish, boss rebalancing, and level design
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Dark Fantasy · 2D · Adventure · Indie · Metroidvania · Singleplayer · Action RPG · RPG · Lore-Rich · Action · Souls-like · Fantasy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Simplified Chinese * , Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 30 |
| Official site | https://twitter.com/AwakenBlade |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows7 Processor: Dual [email protected] Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 2GB of video RAM DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 2 GB available space