Heaven Dust

Heaven Dust

Worth it · RPG · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $7.99.

Length
3.2h 6.9h to 100%
Value
$2.50/hr
Reviews
91% of 696 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement34% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.50/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 333 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

When you awake, you find yourself in a mansion, where was the secret research center, is now a maze full of horrible zombies and deadly traps. You'll have to escape by overcoming your fears, collecting items, solving innovative puzzles and revealing the cruel truth.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000 Series, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 41 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut ($9.99, scores 61) and Dark Deception (free, scores 73) both come in lower.

More about Heaven Dust

Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 333 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.

Finishing takes 3.2 hours; clearing it takes 7, which is 2.2 times the campaign.

The drop-off

85% start to 34% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

Decent Resident Evil-lite. Hardly anything ground breaking. Puzzles are good, mansion is fun to explore. Combat really isn't anything special, having only a pistol that you upgrade over the game. The horror is very light, don't bother playing if you're looking for spooks. Story is very much your typical RE-esque bioweapon stuff. If you have an itch for a survival horror game without the horror, try it out.
Jedward 4 lifeRecommendedafter 3.0hNov 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Heaven Dust, developed by One Gruel Studio and published by indienova, is a compact indie survival horror game that serves as both a loving homage to and a reinterpretation of the classic Resident Evil formula. From its opening moments, it's clear that the developers sought to capture the nostalgic essence of late-1990s horror design-fixed camera angles, key-based exploration, limited resources, and a creeping sense...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 12hNov 2025Read on Steam
A puzzle action game heavily inspired by Resident Evil series. The final boss even looks like a combination of Nemesis and Birkin. Game features super light combat mechanics, with single weapon and ammo type, no other way of fighting other than running away. As for puzzles, there`s some really clever ones, some straight out of Resident Evil games and something in between. Multiple endings and a story that keeps you...
BoboscusRecommendedafter 5.2hSep 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Heaven Dust scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1032590/heaven-dust
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperOne Gruel Studio
Publisherindienova
GenreRPG
Released2020
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements34