Release Date: June 11, 2025
Genre: action, adventure, RPG
Developer / Publisher: SHIFT UP Corporation / PlayStation Publishing LLC
Platform: PC (Windows)
Interface and Subtitles Language: English, Arabic, Danish, Spanish (Spain / Latin America), Italian, Chinese (Traditional / Simplified), Korean, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Thai, Turkish, Finnish, French, Swedish, Japanese
Voice Acting Language: English, Spanish (Spain / Latin America), Italian, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, German, Portuguese (Brazil), French, Japanese
Multiplayer: none (single player)
Edition: Complete Edition
Version: 1.4.1
About this game
Post-apocalyptic Earth in Stellar Blade looks like a battlefield after a war that has dragged on too long: cities lie in ruins, humans have taken shelter in the Colony, and the surface is held by the dangerous Naytiba. Korean studio SHIFT UP builds the game around Eve, a fighter of the 7th Airborne Squadron. After a failed landing she carries on the mission alongside Adam and the engineer Lily, makes her way to the city of Xion, and gradually pieces together why Earth ended up on the brink of extinction.
By genre Stellar Blade sits closer to a story-driven third-person action with fast duels, exploration of semi-open zones, and light RPG progression. Combat demands reading enemy attacks, parrying on time, dodging, and using beta skills, while between fights the player searches for camps, documents, resources, and quests from survivors. If you want to download Stellar Blade for its showcase combat and grim science fiction, the PC version became the most complete option: it released after the PS5 version and picked up technical improvements.
The main features of Stellar Blade come through in combat, routes, upgrades, and the atmosphere of a ruined Earth.
- Combat built around timing — fights hinge on parries, precise dodges, counters, and managing your energy gauges. Mindless mashing gets punished fast, especially against bosses and elite Naytiba.
- A range of attack types and skills — Eve uses her blade, beta skills, explosive moves, a long-range drone mode, and special abilities once the gauges fill. The kit keeps the pace up: melee doesn’t collapse into a single combo.
- Semi-open locations — Eidos 7, the Wasteland, the Great Desert, and Xion act as hubs for exploration, side quests, and resource gathering. The routes contain locked doors, containers, mini-puzzles, fishing, logs, and traces of fallen squads.
- Progression through gear — development runs through exospines, gears, blade upgrades, drone upgrades, and survivability. You can build aggressively, lean into defense, or focus on resource recovery depending on the fight.
- PC version with expanded settings — downloading Stellar Blade on PC makes sense for players who want unlocked framerate, DLSS 4 and FSR 3 support, ultrawide 21:9 and 32:9 monitors, full key remapping, and high-resolution environment textures.
- Visual style and music — ruins, desert districts, underground complexes, and biomechanical enemies hold to a recognizable sci-fi aesthetic. The soundtrack swings from calm vocal themes to tense battle compositions.
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The game has no story DLC that extends the main campaign with a separate chapter, but paid packs and crossover add-ons have released:
Stellar Blade x NieR: Automata — the pack adds NieR: Automata-themed content, including outfits for Eve, an appearance for Adam, and cosmetics for the drone.
Stellar Blade x GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE — a crossover with another SHIFT UP project that brings new outfits and extra content tied to the NIKKE universe.
Stellar Blade Deluxe Pack — a digital bundle with Stargazer outfits for Eve, Lily, and Adam, drone cosmetics, glasses, earrings, gold, and SP EXP for an early progression boost.
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-7600K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
- RAM: 16 GB
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB (DirectX 12)
- Disk space: 75 GB (SSD required)
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
- RAM: 16 GB
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super / AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (DirectX 12)
- Disk space: 75 GB (SSD required)
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Reviews
Simply, one of the best games I’ve ever played in more than 30 years of gaming. I bought Stella Blade out of curiosity (and the love of glam female characters), and was drawn in by the complex story – which is itself a timely and grand reflection on the possible dystopian future of the human race. It’s also a simple reminder that kindness, compassion and our quest for truth are the most essential traits that make us human.
Eve’s inner journey, as she follows her quest and discovers the truth about the world and herself, is truly a masterpiece and her developing psychology is both moving and triumphant. I would recommend this game to everyone. Made on a tight budget, its limitations are minor compared with its grand overall achievement.
The gameplay itself is superb, with a complex fighting and movement system that takes time to master, and is very rewarding and fun. So, give it a go. You won’t regret it.
Probably a top 5 video game for me. The graphics are good, the game runs great, character designs are very good, combat is super fun, the soundtrack is excellent, and there is a decent amount of side content but not enough to be overwhelming. Start the game on normal then switch to hard for a ng+ playthrough, playing your first playthrough on hard will turn the enemies into damage sponges.
The story is decent, but nothing more. Some of the English voice acting is not very good. There could also be more environment and enemy variety. Even with those flaws, it’s a 9/10 for me.
I’m writing this review after doing 100% achievements in this game and I fricking love it. The combat feels really good it’s really satisfying. The exploration and puzzles did remind me of Prince of Persia it can be tedious but it’s really rewarding once you figure it out. The story is a bit cliche kind of like DOOM 2016 but it will be good for world building for the sequels. And the soundtracks are really good too. And Eve is hot and her outfit designs are really cool from modest to spicy. If you starting out to play souls-like games I think would recommend starting out with this game. I really had fun 100%ing this game. Waiting for Stellar Blade 2.
Story: 8/10
Music: 9/10
Combat: 9/10
Exploration: 8/10
Side missions: 8/10
Enjoyment: 10/10
Eve: 1000/10
Sexy character and outfits aside, it’s unironically one of the best action games I’ve ever played. Combat is amazing and on Hard mode, the boss battles are just chef’s kiss especially the last few bosses. Gameplay loop is so addictive that I got the Platinum for the game with 3 full playthroughs including hard mode and immediately started another Hard mode NG+++.
If you read all the lore tidbits the story is actually not too bad although could have been executed better. But tbh it’s so enjoyable to play and there’s a lot of side content to do that it doesn’t get stale. They throw some curve balls in the gameplay which keeps things fresh and reminded me of the variety in Nier Automata. If you liked that game you would like this one 100%.
Runs incredibly smoothly and visuals are amazing with only some FPS dips in the larger open areas.
10/10 single player game.
A really good game with one of the best combat systems I’ve ever played. It took me almsot 100 hours to get 100%, definitely worth the money.
The lighting is a bit too bright in places, but visually the game still looks great and the performance is outstanding.
The problem: there’s no good progress/collectibles tracker in the game itself, at least not for gear and skins. You can miss items and, in that case, will likely have to complete another playthrough (because the skins build on each other), therefore you’re forced to spend a lot of time researching online and studying guides, which noticeably diminishes the fun and replay value. I see room for improvement here, because you already need 3 playthroughs for 100% completion 8.5/10
