Foregone
Fair · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $2.82/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 660 or equivalent, 676 MB of storage. Windows only.
Foregone is a fast and fluid 2D action-platformer packed with legendary loot and stunning pixel art. Collect an arsenal of powerful weapons and unravel a compelling story of regret and conspiracy as you slice your way through hordes of enemies to save Calagan.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
January 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 43 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 48 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Last Faith ($27.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Death's Gambit: Afterlife ($19.99, scores 52).
Critics scored it 71. Players sit 10 points higher at 81 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 549 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 234 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 7.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 18, 2.5 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
93% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 09:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It looks pretty nice on the surface, but once you start playing, you find some pretty glaring issues. The combat is simplistic and repetitive, the control you have is pretty limited (no aiming, no blocking, no parry, very limited set of skills, can only use two skills at a time, etc etc), and to make matters worse, the hitreg / hitboxes have serious issues. Pretty good looking as it is, it's not that fun to play...
I purchased Foregone almost by release day, and I barely touched. Decided to play it recently, and now I remember exactly why. It looks pretty, it has good voiceacting, it plays decent, the story hints that may become interesting, and ultimately? It's an extremely boring game. It takes every cue it can from Dead Cells. In the movement, in the art style, in the feedback and the impact. It's a carbon copy of the game...
This is a good platformer game with a decent combat control system. The game seems like it is more suitable in new game+.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Foregone scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1000760/foregoneReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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