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DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO

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!

Developer
Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Publisher
Bandai Namco Entertainment
Franchise
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Release date
Oct 10, 2024
Store page updated
Aug 3, 2026
Price
−40% $49.99 $29.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

47.6/ 100

Based on 439 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😐 Mixed 56% of 280
All time 😄 Very Positive 86% of 72,716
“had fun in first week, believed it would be a generational game”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-1.22
Controls & feel +0.44
“best Dragon Ball game in terms of gameplay, improved BT3” (17)
God, el mejor juego de Dragon ball en cuestion de jugabilidad sin duda. Y, aunque a muchos les duela, es BT3 mejorado.

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Story & World
-0.03
Story -1.57
“story skipped through too much” (25)

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Content Volume
-2.34
Volume -1.69
“story mode extremely abridged, skips entire sagas, bare bones content” (28)

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Visuals & Sound
+1.48
Visuals +3.20
“graphically beautiful visuals” (70)

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Multiplayer
-1.14
Playing together +0.65
“amazing with friends playing couch co-op and tournaments together” (22)

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Fairness
-3.08
Monetization -4.14
“early buyers punished; ultimate edition 100$ now legendary 90$ with DLC” (176)

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Tech & Ops
-1.68
Developer support -2.66
“developers abandoned support, no quality of life updates or meaningful content after launch” (18)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by week · major update DLC
20%40%60%80%100%
Oct 7, 2024Sep 14, 2026
Reviews
per day · 277 reviews, peak 17/day
01020
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by week. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the week before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 439 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English52%
  • Spanish17%
  • Portuguese14%
  • Chinese5%
  • French4%
  • Japanese3%
  • Other5%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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