The World is Your Weapon

The World is Your Weapon

Worth it · Roguelike · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $9.99.

Length
8.7h 11.4h to 100%
Value
$1.15/hr
Reviews
97% of 686 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $6.99 (30% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
Reviews97% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 95% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.15/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 316 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

Wells, pitfalls, houses, villagers, monsters (!?), anything around you can be a weapon! An action RPG that you've never seen before, you can fight with all the objects you see in the game. There are more than 300 kinds of weapons.Aim to complete the weapon gallery!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Open GL compliant video card, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 34 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Shattered Pixel Dungeon ($4.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Peglin ($11.99, scores 62).

More about The World is Your Weapon

This site sampled 316 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to July 2026.

What players say

Lighthearted and made me smile the whole way through. Gameplay left me trying to pick up everything in sight and looking forward to what I'd weaponize next. 10/10 time well spent.
MrSquashRecommendedafter 24hNov 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
I started playing this thinking it sounded nifty. Strange. And I worked on advancing through the dungeons, strategizing, all of that. It was okay. Then I got the point of it all. This is gleefully dumb. Beautiful, honestly. The point where this game becomes so much fun is the point where you stop caring about finishing up your to-do list and become drunk with your own power. When you rob a random house blind and...
Logstar Go!Recommendedafter 5.9hNov 2025Read on Steam
I want to pick up the *.exe of the game and hit an enemy with it, that's the only thing left to do. Fantastic game.
an_gunRecommendedafter 29hApr 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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The World is Your Weapon scores 81/100 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/1056490/the-world-is-your-weapon
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Reviews 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 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

Developerkagaya
PublisherDWANGO Co., Ltd.
GenreRoguelike
Released2019
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate