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Game
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BLADESTORM: Nightmare
Developer KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
BLADESTORM: Nightmare is the newest evolution of 2007’s BLADESTORM: The Hundred Years’ War using the latest technologies and introducing many new elements. These technologies have made possible not only visual improvements, but also many new game elements. BLADESTORM: Nightmare offers an entirely new gameplay experience. From the Steam store page
217 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
76
LovedLoved
139 positive · 43 negative
95% range 70–82%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 139 | 43 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 16 | 1 | 13 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
232 of 323 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
76% recommend · 142 yes, 44 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 186 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (349 of 510 positive).
Players praise the game as a unique action-strategy title set in the Hundred Years' War, but note it's not for everyone. [1][2][3] Several players criticize the high price and recommend waiting for a sale. [4][5][6][7]
Liked
Representative posts
- [7]
I purchased this game in 2026, 11 years after nightmares release and 19 years after the originals. This was exclusively out of nostalgia. 60 for this game is criminal. Even the 25$ key I paid for it is criminal. If it was 10$ right now, id recommend it. This game is both a hidden gem, and a pit of lost potential. It starts of so, so good. Squad based dynasty warriors type combat, where you can level up each weapon …
- [1]
Bladestorm: Nightmare is a Japanese Warriors-interpretation of the 100 Year War between England and France, featuring a good score of actually existing historical characters. Being a Musou game, it is extremely grindy and only appeals to a niche target audience, but to that audience, it does deliver most superbly. The game is a revamp from the original 2007 console release, scales nicely to 4k and looks pretty good …
- [2]
Fun game based on interesting history. While it seems a bit like Dynasty warriors, you have to rely way more on your squad to survive the battles, so you're not a solo super powered commander in this game. At some point you can combine up to 4 squads to command a small army. Or split them up on the battlefield and switch between them. You can also pretty much take over any (non-defensive) allied squad you see on the …
- [4]
For $60 it's pretty bad. For $15 it's pretty awesome.
- [3]
So what to say about this unique game, other then that it is a great one, not for everyone though of course with its style as I can definitely see some people not enjoying that you strike with all your soldiers as a group which can be a bit annoying at times. Once you level up enough though the game can be quite easy, I still enjoy it myself but I can see that turning some people away from it as well, the way the …
Summarised from 34 of the 223 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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BLADESTORM: Nightmare sits at 76% positive across 182 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 217 · most liked firstJust noticed that Bladestorm: Nightmare is once again at a decent price - only for the next 35h though. Possibly my favourite 6/10 game of all time. The last of Koei's Kessen series, but mangling European history. Think Dynasty Warriors but you're controlling several regiments instead of one guy.
positive · AI labelView post →Bladestorm is on sale again! A rare event. One of my all-time favourite 6/10 games. An action strategy game that does for the Hundred Years War what Dynasty Warriors did for Chinese history: Completely mangle it. Heavily expanded over the original 360 version. www.humblebundle.com/store/blades...
positive · AI labelView post →Bladestorm: Nightmare is a Japanese Warriors-interpretation of the 100 Year War between England and France, featuring a good score of actually existing historical characters. Being a Musou game, it is extremely grindy and only appeals to a niche target audience, but to that audience, it does deliver most superbly. The game is a revamp from the original 2007 console release, scales nicely to 4k and looks pretty good featuring hundreds of units on screen without stutter or any technical issues.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I purchased this game in 2026, 11 years after nightmares release and 19 years after the originals. This was exclusively out of nostalgia. 60 for this game is criminal. Even the 25$ key I paid for it is criminal. If it was 10$ right now, id recommend it. This game is both a hidden gem, and a pit of lost potential. It starts of so, so good. Squad based dynasty warriors type combat, where you can level up each weapon individually. Combo based EXP gain. Tons of different weapon classes to try…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bladestorm: Nightmare is a re-release of Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War, which itself was a console game released in 2007 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. You play as a mercenary, a soldier for hire who is going to France to fight in the War between England and France for, like, I dunno, territorial claim or something to do with family trees, their nobles you don’t need to know why we’re killing one another, just how much you’re being paid. Bladestorm takes place in this odd…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just putting this one slightly aside from the rest of my sales recommendations Bladestorm is a game of questionable quality. It's a so-so PC port of an expanded PS4 re-release of an obscure PS3 game. You need to mod Xbox/PS button prompts in I also find it WILDLY compelling. Pure gaming junk food.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game's tutorial is deceptive. I went in an thought this would turn out to be a weird experiment by Omega-Force and was disappointed when I couldnt combo attack enemies into the sun. Then 9 Hours in I realised I just ordered my OC Donutsteel anime german waifu to defend a fortress in West Bruges while I control my legally distinct Casca and sweep the fields with her heavy cavalry. Swapping between to two characters whenever I saw Bruges was starting to get a little too overun by Frenchmen.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a Decade later this game is still full price...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun game based on interesting history. While it seems a bit like Dynasty warriors, you have to rely way more on your squad to survive the battles, so you're not a solo super powered commander in this game. At some point you can combine up to 4 squads to command a small army. Or split them up on the battlefield and switch between them. You can also pretty much take over any (non-defensive) allied squad you see on the field (if you've read the skillbooks for it). And there's quite a variety…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sweet baby jebus it finally went on sale after 15 years.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a Miracle. After all these years, this game on sale right now. This game reminds me a lot of Kessen 3, Good ol times. Anyway, this game is pretty good and fun to play. Especially to bonk your enemies into crisp.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In many ways, Bladestorm Nightmare feels like the last PS2 game, an action-strategy game filled with peak Koei cruft and an increasingly unhinged fantasy story in Nightmare mode. If you miss 6/10 genre experiments that are arguably more interesting when they don’t work, I can’t recommend it enough.
positive · AI labelView post →For $60 it's pretty bad. For $15 it's pretty awesome.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I get more frames per second when I move pictures in my hands.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Taking a break from the list with a real sicko's pick - Bladestorm: Nightmare. One of Koei's wierdest games. A regiment-level action-strategy game (think Dynasty Warriors but you control 30 guys at once) set in a gloriously mangled version of the Hundred Years War. Usually overpriced. $15 for now.
positive · AI labelView post →I was a fool For 2 years I didn't buy this title on steam, for 2 years I believed the reviews, for 2 years I waited, I eventually bought the ps4 game since the reviews suggested to buy the game on console and since I loved the ps3 original I bought it on ps4, but this summer sale I thought to my self what the heck lets get it on pc. I regret ever buying the game on ps4, since the steam version works perfectly fine and is at better quality running at perfect frame rate and higher resolution.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bladestorm is not really as much of a beat-em-up as it is a racing game. At first, the game makes you think that you'll have to carefully pick your units and spend your research points (which you use to level up) strategically to maintain a well-balanced army. The tutorial shows you that the different unit types have hard strengths and weaknesses, like that horses are weak to spearmen. There is a huge unit roster to choose from, and you can even switch between units on the fly in battle. This…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Speaking of weird decade+ old games that only go on sale rarely, Bladestorm: Nightmare is going cheap, and is a guilty pleasure favourite of mine. Arguably the final game in Koei's action-strategy Kessen series. A remarkably intricate but meatheaded Japanese interpretation of the Hundred Years War.
positive · AI labelView post →Bladestorm would be a very interesting and fun to play game if any aspect of it worked in harmony or if any part of it felt finished. The original mode of the game is the 100 Years War, this story has you arriving at a tavern frequented by soldiers and mercenaries as a newly arrived mercenary looking to build your reputation. As you play the game new regions are unlocked with each acting as one large map that can have different contracts on it to capture and hold different…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is awesome.... on console but holy cow the PC port is horrible. I have a 3080 Ti an I9, 64 gigs of ram and it's on a m.2 drive and even on low settings the FPS is so bad it's unplayable. Not sure if it's just the optimization or what but it's horrible. on High settings I get like 1 to 5 FPS medium is like 5 to 10 and low is like 10 to 15. I messed with the settings for a good 15 to 20 minutes trying to get it to work right cause I loved this game on console and wanted to play it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this back on the PS3 and sunk over 1000 hours into it as a young kid. I absolutely loved just running around with OP everything and killing hundreds of French and English. This port to pc which I just discovered yesterday and bought seems to have been done pretty well. I had initial issues with the game only running at like 10 fps but figured out that it was caused by the game running on my integrated gpu rather then my laptops RTX 2060. Once I changed that via Nvidia Control Panel I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic game in almost every way. Not worth $60
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A prime example of the Koei Tecmo Half-Arseness. Back in the days before Koei became the disgouger of mindless hack-and-slash titles they are now, the company was mainly known for their strategy games with heavy historical influences - Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Nobunaga's Amibition, etc. It was this focus on historical authenticity that helped Koei stand out in the market, and it is one of the few merits the company retained to this day, albeit less and less apparent as their recent…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hello folks! Time for some End Game content in Bladestorm before we go into the Nightmare! So come and hang! www.twitch.tv/the_fluffy_d...
neutral · AI labelView post →A wonderful, simple game where you lead units against each other. It seems like a first-person fighter, but it's not: you lead squads, and fight with your squad, not alone. And it illustrates the little-known historical fact that the Hundred Years' War was mostly fought to finance the nobles' hair product imports.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't know what happened but this game doesn't start any longer. The fact it's still 60$ and can't even get past launch is criminal.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →max out the cavalry unit, Have massive cav unit flying through all the fortresses trampling a lot of pixelated medieval soldiers, than watch them flee wile epic music plays in the background, get tingly feeling of how much of a bad ass hero I am. Repeat to get the tingly feeling.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey folks! back to France for more Bladestorm! Here's to doing all the end game content! www.twitch.tv/the_fluffy_d...
neutral · AI labelView post →There's really no other game like Bladestorm. It experiments a lot with the old Kessen formula, and Koei haven't done anything like it in over a decade since. It's a remarkably deep action-strategy-RPG hybrid, more sandboxy than structured. Not very hard, but with room to challenge yourself.
positive · AI labelView post →If you were to buy all 24 of the games in this thread, it would cost you a total of... £72.53 And just £60 (around the price of one new AAA console game) if you drop Bladestorm, which is just my personal sicko's pick. And I'm confident you'd get more fun out of that mountain than, say, Spider-Man 2
positive · AI labelView post →game doesnt port over to pc well at all you first have to look up a guide on how to change the language if you dont know how to read japanese, after you get that you realize that the controls are horrible and not made to play no the pc
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bladestorm: Nightmare was a really cool game back in the day. It was released before Koei started overpricing their subpar ports and kept the "weeby" elements on the down-low, given its setting during the Hundred Years' War between England and France. However, being a Koei game, don’t expect anything too historically accurate. It still sneaks in a slight fantasy/anime vibe where it can. The game is similar to the old Warriors games, Kingdom under fire or Ninety-Nine Nights from the Xbox 360…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Steam Deck users: Properties > Force Compatibility > Proton Experimental = Enjoying game on Steam Deck. Just note the first few cut scenes won't work, but the game play and everything else will.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a solid port and worth every penny. I put hundreds of hours into Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War on the XBOX 360 and so I really wanted to try the sequel. I was surprised and extremely happy to see that they included the original Bladestorm: Hundred Years' War with this purchase., and they even upgraded it with a lot of new game mechanics. I'm now having the time of my life replaying the original Bladestorm release at 4k resolution. It appears this game was poorly reviewed after…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New today on the blog! Continuing the Medievalism theme Johansen Quijano @quijanophd.bsky.social explores Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War (2007), how the game integrates fantastical elements within a broadly historical framework & its overall "authenticity" www.historicalgames.net/medievalism-...
neutral · AI labelView post →So what to say about this unique game, other then that it is a great one, not for everyone though of course with its style as I can definitely see some people not enjoying that you strike with all your soldiers as a group which can be a bit annoying at times. Once you level up enough though the game can be quite easy, I still enjoy it myself but I can see that turning some people away from it as well, the way the shop works for armor and the like can be a bit annoying to as you have to hope…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1. Horses 2. Charge 3. Win Every Battle 10/10 Will Ride again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the most fun games I played in a long time! RTS mixed with Action combat its awesome!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get this if it is on sale (sales are rare for this)! Are the graphics modern? No. Is this a high quality port? Haha, No. Is it hilariously fun to bowl through mindless armored bowling pins from the back of a horse while rocking out to a bombastic medieval-inspired orchestra? My goodness, yes. THREE STEPS TO ENJOYING THIS GAME: 1. Buy on sale 2. Read the community guides on changing to English text, and controller support 3. BE SWORD CAVALRY If you happen to have fun crawling across the map…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good game need more games like this
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very jewy merchant sells weapons to both sides of a conflict. historical accuracy confirmed.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fun and it runs like i remembered it on the xbox 360, that being said the original game was fun and just that "fun". the game is really limited and always has been you can run around and kill stuff no problem but there isn't any real challenge to the game and it's very grind intensive to get to the end, and i'm talking a LOT of grinding for a single player game (originally online co-op) and it can get a little boring at times especially if you play it in long spurts of time. If you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thanks Koei for FINALLY putting this on sale. Brings me back to the PS3 days. The nightmare campaign is a nice addition too if you've only ever played the PS3 version.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No performance issues like some other reviewers have mentioned. Runs fine for me. Having a blast re-playing this game I used to have on PS3.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I sank hundreds of hours into the original release of Bladestorm on the Xbox 360. When I saw it got an updated release with an added campaign and new features and was available on Steam, I was super excited. Then I got extremely discouraged when I read all of the negative reviews about how poorly optimized it supposedly was. I finally broke down and bought a copy and let me say, the reviews were wrong. The game runs just as smoothly on my mid-range PC as it did on the console. Yes, it's only…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed this but it won't be for everyone. I was entertained by the rather random Japanese interpretation of the Hundred Years War, and the basic gameplay loop is good fun - although you seem to rapidly become significantly more powerful than most enemies you face. It was good mindless fun during a period when I was very sleep deprived and not up to much else. Also, just to note, £50 for a game this old is a joke - I picked it up on sale. I wouldn't recommend it at full price.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good ol fashion musao title, doesn't have cloud save though
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As someone who has never played this game back then, this is a very unique game and I am glad it finally went on sale after all of these years.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: + There is a lot of unit variety. 21 Unit types and 60 classes in total which vary from the simple swordsmen line to the wonders of magicians and engineers. You'll even see units that originate from other countries such as the likes of Vikings, Japanese samurai and Roman phalanx bringing heaps of roleplay value. Each unit type can be upgraded with more soldiers per squad, increased attack/defense/movement speed and ammo. + A unique story that's based off the Hundred Years War between…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly I've been following it since it released as 100 years war on xbox 360, still ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fantastic.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Updated patch play for windows 10. This game is soo Bad. KOEI is dont care about this game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was supposed to be a good title but ... as lots of players have stated below the controls are broken that you can't even play properly. Think it would be like those Open world hack and slash ? Nope, there isn't even a button for normal attack and every thing you do have to be reloaded lol
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game itself is very good. However, the PC version is unplayable ( at least on my PC) due to heavy problems like crashing. Only buy this game if you have a powerful computer or if you don´t mind playing this on the lowest graphics settings.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Now the game on -75% now It’s an updated version of earlier PS3 title. The game never crashed once. This game you play as nobody in the Hundred Years’ War area story mode with no story or the newly added mode with this rerelease nightmare mode inspired by warriors orochi, 9 stages and it is the only reason why I give this game a good review. The only mod I found for this game is the PS controller buttons it’s in the guide section. The game play you go around big empty map capturing bases…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Does anyone have an Ash setup that they like? He's one of the few frames I cannot seem to find any joy in playing. I've tried Savage Silence Bladestorm and found it incredibly boring to wait for things to die.
neutral · AI labelView post →i remember giving this game to a friend for his birthday a while ago, i didnt like this game at the time (cuz i thought it would play like a Musou game) so i gave him this game aswell as a German copy of Mirrors Edge Catalyst. Now in current day, out of the 2 games, this is the one i regret giving away the most lol (bro didnt even play it)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →best style of game ive ever played with there was more games like this this game is a bangger of a game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a great game. There are a few bugs but nothing that is game-breaking. The game is replayable due to the fact that there are 2 separate campaigns: The Hundred Years War campaign and the Nightmare Campaign. When you finish one campaign your character, inventory and squads can be transferred over into the other campaign.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After looking up how to switch the game to English and figuring out the controls, game remains true to the original! Loved every second of it played for nearly six hours straight. Before I bought it there was a lot of reviews complaining about the game crashing or not working or frame drop, by no means would I call my laptop a gaming computer but I have yet to experience any of this! (Will edit review if user experience changes)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game actually has a virus in the loader.....
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