Eastern Exorcist
Fair · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $17.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $3.60/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 750, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Eastern Exorcist is a stunning 2D side-scrolling action RPG set in a fantasy eastern world with the vicious spirits and monsters. Play as a skilled exorcist against chaotic evil to fight your way through the brutal world, and experience different stories of joy and sorrow.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $8.99. That was March 2023. 39 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Death's Gambit: Afterlife ($9.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Chasm ($19.99, scores 35).
Steam's global achievement data says about 5 percent of players ever finish it. On a 5-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 868 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5 hours. Doing everything runs 16, 3.1 times as long.
The drop-off
59% start to 5% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 5-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
6 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
Eh... controls are a bit floaty and the damn spells are so overcomplicated that I decided to only use the 2 most straightforward ones and still had no clue of why they activated at random moments. Also I finished the game before I knew you can equip items and upgrade them. The art is beautiful and reminded me of vanillaware games.
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Eastern Exorcist scores 54/100 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/1120810/eastern-exorcistThe 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 Sep 18, price as of Sep 24.
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