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Pixel Samurai
A journey of a lost samurai. Encounter five samurai and challenge them to a duel. Unleash your katana strike and deflect incoming attacks. Fight for honor or die with shame.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“It is not the hardest game in the world until it decides to be the hardest in the final boss fight. Mainly because sometimes my character model glitches and does not attack the 5th final enemy when I just parried his attacks and left it in a vulnerable state. Otherwise, fun…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedLatest official news
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Ps4 and Xbox Controller supports Updates
you can now use PS4 controller and Xbox controller! Its all in the tutorial flag! Enjoy!!:)
Updates on Difficulty Selection!!!
You can now hit the samurai statue to switch to easy mode where you can hold you parry by holding RMB. However whenever you parried an attack, you need to hold RMB again to get in parry state. Its a l
Update notes on 6 July
Quick fix of a bug on tengu boss level and added an additional tutorial flag. Enjoy
Quick update on level selection
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Quick update on level selection
you can now choose which boss to fight at any time. data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAA4EAAAHXCAYAAAAC4l8PAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAAJcEhZcwAADsMAAA7DAcdvqGQAACiLSURBVHhe7d
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Action, Indie |
| Player tags | Difficult · Indie · Pixel Graphics · Action-Adventure · Swordplay · Action · Combat · Singleplayer · Casual · Rhythm · 2D · Cute (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Full controller support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese |
| Controller | Full support |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista/7/8 Processor: 2.0 Ghz i5 or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 1GB Video RAM DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 200 MB available space