Is it worth $70?
We called this one pre-launch. Reviews are in now, so here's the same question with real numbers behind it: 23,592 Steam reviews, 90% positive, and full price since day one.
Press reviews landed August 31 and settled on the same shape: combat is the strong part, tone and mid-game pacing wobble. GamesRadar's verdict — that "goofiness, accessibility, and tight combat help this rough diamond shine" — sums it up. Players have been kinder than the press.
The case for buying now
- It's a real Onimusha game. Twenty years of waiting, made by Capcom's internal action team, with the Issen parry and soul-absorbing gauntlet intact. If you played the PS2 originals, this is the most direct sequel you could ask for.
- Parry-first combat is hard to find. If you liked Sekiro but bounced off its interconnected map, this is a more linear, chapter-based version of that combat feel.
- The reviews backed it up. 90% positive across 23,592 Steam reviews (checked September 23, 2026) — the biggest risk a $70 purchase carried in August is gone.
The case for waiting
- $70 is $70. No launch discount — three weeks in it's still $69.99. Waiting costs you time, not money.
- PC stutter is the one loud complaint. Threads in r/Onimusha and r/OptimizedGaming fill up with hitching above 60fps. If your rig runs high frame rates, read those before you buy.
- Nothing expires. Single-player story, no season, no timed mode — starting in October costs you nothing.
Who should buy it now
- Longtime Onimusha fans who waited twenty years for a real sequel — value isn't the question, finally getting the game is.
- Sekiro fans who want more of that parry-counter rhythm in a fresh setting, without the soulslike map.
- Anyone who wants the combat this month and won't gamble on a sale — the game hasn't been discounted once.
Who should wait
- Casual action fans who only buy on sale — the review score already settled, so price is the only variable left.
- Anyone hoping for an open-world soulslike — this is chapter-based action, not Elden Ring.
- Anyone who wanted Samanosuke back — the protagonist is new. The old cast isn't in the marketing.
Bottom line
$70 is a lot for a chapter-based action game, but the two questions this page raised in August — "is it good?" and "is it long enough?" — have mostly answered themselves: 23,592 reviews at 90% positive three weeks in, with more landing daily. What's left is a PC-specific risk, where stutter above 60fps is the complaint that keeps showing up. On console there's nothing left to wait for but a sale.
What to check before you buy
- The Steam user score. 90% positive across 23,592 reviews — "Very Positive" and holding as of September 23, 2026.
- The PC stutter threads. r/Onimusha and r/OptimizedGaming both have active fix threads for hitching above 60fps.
- Your platform's price. It's $69.99 everywhere and hasn't moved; console stores bundle the add-ons differently.