Swords and Sandals Classic Collection
Worth it · Roguelike · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 4.6h
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
"Gladiator, gladiator, gladiator, Swords and Sandals, Gladiatorrrrr!"You grew up playing the legendary Swords and Sandals turn based combat game series. These games have been played over half a billion times. Swords and Sandals is nostalgia, Swords and Sandals is life.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
August 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. 45 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Pit People® ($19.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Age ($14.99, scores 57).
8 of the 494 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 352 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 4.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 29, 6.3 times as much.
The drop-off
64% start to 3% 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
32 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 02:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I don't usually write reviews this long, but this game is worth writing an actual review I grew up with this, just like probably the majority of people who bought this for the nostalgia and for the love of it, but you really cannot get bored of this game, even if you lose in a specific game, you quit and quit the game, but it's so addicting and fun, and also competitive that you come back to it everytime. You don't...
I love this game because im very nostalgic for it, when i was a little kid me and my brother used to play ss2 a lot, but coming back now and playing it again i can see that the game isnt very good, it is extremely unfair at times and the bosses can sometimes stunlock you before you can do anything even if you have the best gear possible for your level. I beat ss1 in an hour or so but it felt eaqualy unfair as ss2. I...
my screen is black and i checked everything to get it restarted or functionning like it was 2 days ago... i dont understand the issue.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Swords and Sandals Classic Collection scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1055430/swords-and-sandals-classic-collectionReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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