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Your flight crashes after passing through a mysterious portal. As the sole survivor, you awaken to an unfamiliar land lit by stars you’ve never seen. This land is Escario. Quickly marked as the Chosen One, the Stranger of Sword City, you must defend this place, and choose your allegiances carefully...

Stranger of Sword City is a dungeon crawler, rpg and jrpg game developed by Experience Inc. and published by NIS America and Inc..
Released on June 06th 2016 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and Japanese.

It has received 620 reviews of which 415 were positive and 205 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.5 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.36€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Stranger of Sword City into these genres:

Dungeon Crawler RPG JRPG Turn-Based Anime First-Person Character Customization Grid-Based Movement Party-Based RPG Violent Gore Difficult Great Soundtrack Singleplayer Turn-Based Combat

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 8/7/Vista
  • Processor: Pentium 4 2.40 GHz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: VRAM 256MB
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c

User reviews & Ratings

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June 2025
This game is hard and will ensure you that its not gonna hold your hand one indication of this is that every enemy packs a punch, your allies especially in early game is very weak expect to see them get decimated even on the beginner dungeon since every enemy is either very high in level or the same if your lucky and fight easy targets most enemies are higher in level than your party probably level 20 while your whole party still level 5 and very slow which in this scenario you'll see them get attacked by only one enemy in its respective row which attacks for multiple times (depends) in one turn, remember this is only one target in the row the situation will be even more grim when its multiple enemies that are very fast in multiple rows which will definitely encourage some to grind on that sweet,sweet AGI and trying buff every turn which in turn makes the combat slower ( this is a turn based game). However this is not the only reason why this game will be even more slower than normal since it employs a life system which will definitely have permanent death if an respective character/Party Member gets defeated a life point will be consumed. Now then you'll ask how does the life system work, it all depends on the age of an character as older it is the less life will it get however if younger the more life it gets. Age also is an contributing factors of stats, for how old or young they will have a set of bonus stats they'll can attribute to your character for young they are lower for the old characters they will be higher. it all comes down to age whether it will be easier to roll good stat. Another one is that this game also employs a hospitalization system which will force you to rest for few in game days (you need to fight to progress it i think) your party if ever a member is defeated and after that you'll need to make it rest again to recover its life point for an even longer in game day. Still this game does have instant recovery button which will sped up the recovery process the only downside is that prices will scale up with your level meaning the higher you are the expensive it is this stands true for the recover life point this scales up way to high making it very very expensive to even afford to sped up the process since its much more important to buy support items. There are items that heals life points though very rare and items that auto revives a character so just grind away. Due to the life point system you'll probably be forced to create more party members to cycle as a spare if you ever need. Even if not they also give money which will help you gain another source of income in the game. And yes they also give you a save button and load button on the base giving you another option to just save and load at every mistake how its your choice on whats your strategy on it. Another thing is that the shop where you buy stuff does not resupply making it not a go to for buying healing items that much since if you'll get caught off guard and you have no healing magic it will severely ruin the experience this is however not a really massive issue i just don't like it. Good ui though its not bad compared to abyss another game of experience. Regarding everything i have said above its still however a fun game offered a good difficulty trying to finished it and it took quite a while for me to beat it and very easy achievements to get and complete so if you still find it interesting i highly recommend you to play it and if you want more they still have a lot of games that feels like this which is like Operation abyss new tokyo legacy. and if you really want this i highly suggest to really learn more of the mechanics and systems of this game since it can get confusing.
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Jan. 2025
Very interesting style for a dungeon crawler. Here are some of the main points: Character customization is decent, with the option to multiclass up to 5 times. Difficulty increases as the player levels. Equipment is acquired through a unique ambush system (some tiles in dungeons are locations for ambush where you can fight special mobs and win chests with the equipment) Dungeons often multiple levels up and down and different mechanics that the user will have to learn in order to complete them (teleporting, switches, rails etc) As with most rpgs, difficulty is highest at the beginning, but gets easier as the user gets control over the decisions that impact the power of his team A fatality system involving Life Points (Characters who lose all of them are permanently dead, but they can be restored in the guild over time) All in all, decent game for this genre. Just expect a ton of grind and waiting for teammates who have lost a LP to recover before rejoining your party.
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Jan. 2025
I finished this game twice. I loved it.
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Nov. 2024
I've never seen a character customization like that 😍 I am so in love already
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Nov. 2024
Sick asf my niggas
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Frequently Asked Questions

Stranger of Sword City is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

Stranger of Sword City is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

Stranger of Sword City received 415 positive votes out of a total of 620 achieving a rating of 6.45.
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Stranger of Sword City was developed by Experience Inc. and published by NIS America and Inc..

Stranger of Sword City is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Stranger of Sword City is not playable on MacOS.

Stranger of Sword City is not playable on Linux.

Stranger of Sword City is a single-player game.

Stranger of Sword City does not currently offer any DLC.

Stranger of Sword City does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Stranger of Sword City does not support Steam Remote Play.

Stranger of Sword City is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Stranger of Sword City
19.99€ -89% 19.99€ 2.36€ -66% 19.99€ 6.81€
6.5
415
205
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3
Developer
Experience Inc.
Publisher
NIS America, Inc.
Release 06 Jun 2016
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