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.
The Spirit of the Samurai is an adventure developed by Digital Mind Games, released 12 December 2024 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Spirit of the Samurai is
The Spirit of the Samurai is an adventure game developed by Digital Mind Games and released in 2024. It was published by Kwalee. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Spirit of the Samurai holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Spirit of the Samurai launched on 12 December 2024, within three weeks of Delta Force, Marvel Rivals, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Caves of Qud. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Delta Force, Marvel Rivals, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Caves of Qud.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Spirit of the Samurai yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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