Metal: Hellsinger
Fair · Shooter · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $7.88, only fair at $29.99.
- Length
- 4.3h
- Value
- $6.97/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon RX 550, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
Slay to the rhythm of metal and vengeance on an infernal journey through the eight Hells. Make them fear the beat. Metal: Hellsinger is a rhythm FPS bursting with demons, badass weapons, and heavy metal music.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 36 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.88. The record reaches that level 3 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Far Cry® 6 ($5.99, scores 29).
24 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 2,736 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
93% start to 8% 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
45 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I've never felt like more of a badass than when I played this game. Absolute peak. Also, here's my top 3 favorite songs from the game: #1 This Devastation #2 No Tomorrow #3 Stygia
One of the games of all time! While story might not be anything outstanding, the music makes up for every complaint one might have! 10/10
On paper, Metal: Hellsinger sounds like a dream combo, like Hi-Fi Rush meets DOOM. But in reality, it's just a frustrating, repetitive slog that proves blending two great genres doesn't automatically make a good game. Honestly, the best thing I can say about it is that it's really short. That is a massive plus here, because it is just not a very enjoyable experience. The Style and Sound Hold Up To give credit where...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Metal: Hellsinger scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1061910/metal-hellsingerThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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