Driven Out
Skip · Action · 2019
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$14.99Skip
On its price record
$12.32Fair
- Length
- 5h 7.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.00/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 275 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.32 or less.
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
About the game
Beautiful 16 bit retro art style with fluid animations and deliberate combat. Read the enemy and act accordingly in this seamless world without any load screens.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 5770 1024MB | NVIDIA GTS 450 1024MB | Intel HD4000 @720P, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 62 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 72 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Jump King ($12.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Dark Devotion ($19.99, scores 35).
The drop-off
67% start to 11% 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
What players say
It's a nice and good game. Just not my game. I can't get myself to like it. That doesn't make it bad. The controls are quite simple: move with arrows, attack up/middle/low, block up/middle/low, run, turn and use "THE ARTIFACT". The artifact is a weird object that creates a respawn point, using energy that recharges when you kill a boss. You have 3 hitpoits, no more, and if you get down to 0 AND HAD A RESPAWN, you...
2 more reviews
This is the Barbarian thing, the ever-present and never-dying Dark Souls thing, a thing in gloriously simple 2D, with none of the dozen layers of interlocking level-up systems that seem to thickly encrust -- like a disease of hideous, oozing warts -- all the "major" relatives of the Souls thing. It's simplicity itself, with three (literal) levels of attack and parry. Watch your enemy and read those tells, as the...
This is quite a basic hack and slash but it does things very differently from the Souls-likes, rogue-likes and metroidvanias of this world. It solely concentrates on where you attack and where you block or parry: low, mid or high, and then builds out a somewhat enjoyable experience from there. There is no platforming, or attack combos, or rpg elements, or skill trees or anything. Just pure combat with a very slow...
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Cite this score
Driven Out scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1054710/driven-outReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.