Curse of the Dead Gods
Fair · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 20.9h
- Value
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2 GB, GeForce GTX 660/Radeon R7 370, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
You seek untold riches, eternal life, divine powers - it leads to this accursed temple, a seemingly-infinite labyrinth of bottomless pits, deadly traps, and monsters.
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
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was September 2025. 63 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 5 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 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Cells ($24.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Ravenswatch ($24.99, scores 52).
9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 920 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 20.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 83, 4.0 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
85% start to <1% 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
84 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
Its a hard game if you are a completionist, can get frustrating, but super satisfying to clear a new boss.
I keep returning to this game one or two times a year when I want to play something like Hades that I haven't finished. Each time I am overjoyed by the familiar, and one hour later recall why I still haven't finished this. Progression is there, but requires hundreds of hours. And at best is a marginal boost. Normal difficulty is downright gamed against you unless you have those hours. What could have been a great...
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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Curse of the Dead Gods scores 62/100 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/1123770/curse-of-the-dead-godsThe 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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