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The Spirit of the Samurai
A village in peril. A samurai reanimated. An Oni advancing. Fight an army of undead warriors and Japanese monsters as a human, a Kodama, and a cat in this 2D stop-motion action adventure.
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 2026-05-15.
“9/10 game for its discounted price. the annoying bugs bring it down 7.5/10. Still loved playing it”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“i'm genuinely baffled by the negative reviews. This is a great platformer with really nice visuals and a fun story. I see a bunch of people saying the game has a lot of glitches but I played through entirety of it on the Atari VCS (not joking) and it was perfectly fine, and on…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“i really wanted to like this game. i bear myself to be not bothered with the rough edges. The art and visual are nice, the combat wasn't bad. but so many game breaking bugs that super frustrating in early game. after cutscenes post first fighting training, Takeshi just stuck…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedAchievement 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.
Open Beta Update V1.1.0.4
Enhancements to enemy behavior, aggression, reaction timing, and overall combat coherence. Overall Enemy Balance Progression is now more stable and fair, reducing unexpected difficulty spikes. More Ac
Open Beta Update V1.1.0.3
New Features Implemented the difficulty selection system when starting a new game: Easy / Normal / Hard . Fixes Included in This Beta (These fixes were implemented in earlier beta builds but had not b
Patch #5: Open Beta & Fixes
Some news: we have created a beta testing branch for you to test upcoming development! It's live now, so if you wish to be the first to try out new features we are tinkering with, right-click on the g
Patch #4: More Quality of Life Changes and Bug Fixes!
We've made some more quality of life changes and fixed some bugs based on community reports in our latest patch! Here are all of the quality of life changes we've made that are related to the player c
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Gore · Action-Adventure · 2D · Indie · Action · Combat · Swordplay · Ninja · Violent · Dark Fantasy · Cinematic · Adventure (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Korean * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 20 |
| Official site | https://www.spiritofthesamurai.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: AMD FX-6300 | Intel i5 4440 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT 730 | AMD Radeon R7 240 | Intel HD Graphics 630 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 8 GB available space Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system