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ActionAnimeMultiplayerFighting3D FighterLocal Multiplayer

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Game description

DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO takes the legendary gameplay of the Budokai Tenkaichi series and raises it to whole new levels. Make yours the destructive power of the strongest fighters ever to appear in Dragon Ball!

Basic info

DeveloperSpike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
PublisherBandai Namco Entertainment
PlatformsWindows
Steam DeckPlayable
Release dateOct 10, 2024
Price

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Minimum specs

OSWindows 10
ProcessorIntel Core i5-9600K / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Memory8 GB
GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 980 / AMD Radeon RX 590 / Intel Arc A750
Storage29 GB
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Review Analysis Score

Based on 439 reviews from the past 1 year

68.6/ 100
Bottom 20%

Steam rating: Very Positive (86%)

Metacritic: 83 /100

Review analysis summary (Reviewed Oct 22, 2026)

The fights in this arena anime brawler win praise, but pricing anger pulls DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO down to a score of 68.6.

👍 Strengths

76 reviews say it is fun, describing chaotic beam fights with a huge roster, and some still enjoy it after hundreds of hours despite their complaints. 70 call the visuals beautiful, with flashy effects and animations that look straight out of the anime, and Visuals & Sound ranks 672nd of 1249. 22 enjoy playing together, from couch matches with siblings to small tournaments with friends. Gameplay ranks 744th of 1396.

👎 Where it falls short

Pricing & Fairness comes up in 50% of analyzed reviews and ranks 1356th of 1399. 176 reviews object to the pricing, saying premium edition buyers feel punished when a new edition and paid DLC arrived soon after, and some mention a price increase during a sale. 28 find the content thin, saying it gets boring after a few hours and has too little to justify the full price. 25 say the story mode rushes through arcs with few battles per chapter. Content Volume ranks 1127th of 1351, and Story & World ranks 1064th of 1096.

Representative reviews Original reviews ↗

“early buyers punished; ultimate edition 100$ now legendary 90$ with DLC” · 176 reviews
“had fun in first week, believed it would be a generational game” · 76 reviews
“graphically beautiful visuals” · 70 reviews

How it holds up

−50+5

Controls, difficulty, progression and depth
Mentioned in 32% of reviews · Bottom 50% of the games we've analyzed

Controls & feel +1.24 · Responsiveness, precision, and how the menus handle
Positive “best Dragon Ball game in terms of gameplay, improved BT3” · 17 reviews
Negative “controls became too complex, making the game less playable” · 10 reviews

Progression 5% · Difficulty 9% · Onboarding 6% · Freedom 3% · Strategy 8%

Plot, characters and the world
Mentioned in 36% of reviews · Bottom 5% of the games we've analyzed

Story -1.18 · Plot, quests, writing, and the ending
Negative “story skipped through too much” · 25 reviews
Positive “story mode is pretty good” · 7 reviews

Characters 3% · World 4%

How much there is to do, variety and replay value
Mentioned in 36% of reviews · Bottom 20% of the games we've analyzed

Variety -2.48 · Fresh content and situations versus repetition
Negative “content became repetitive and boring after a few months” · 7 reviews

Volume 29% · Replayability 2%

Graphics, art style, music and sound
Mentioned in 38% of reviews · Bottom 50% of the games we've analyzed

Visuals +3.68 · Graphics, art style, and animation
Positive “graphically beautiful visuals” · 70 reviews
Negative “game modeling is 15 years behind industry standard, poor rendering quality” · 3 reviews

Audio 11%

Playing with others, the community and servers
Mentioned in 34% of reviews · Bottom 30% of the games we've analyzed

Community -2.74 · Who you play with — how many, and how friendly
Negative “people online are not fun at all, community not welcoming” · 13 reviews

Playing together 19% · Servers & Connection 7%

Pricing, cheaters, balance and matchmaking
Mentioned in 50% of reviews · Bottom 5% of the games we've analyzed

Pricing -1.33 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge
Negative “early buyers punished; ultimate edition 100$ now legendary 90$ with DLC” · 176 reviews

Anti-cheat 0% · Balance 16% · Matchmaking 5%

Bugs, performance and developer support
Mentioned in 25% of reviews · Bottom 40% of the games we've analyzed

Developer support -0.41 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players
Negative “developers abandoned support, no quality of life updates or meaningful content after launch” · 18 reviews
Positive “developers continuing to improve game with each update” · 1 review

Stability 2% · Performance 3%

Grey means too few reviews mention it to trust. — means almost no reviews mention it.

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