Larva Mortus
Skip · Roguelike · 2009
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 39, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 4.9h 9.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.02/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 746 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Larva Mortus is a fast-paced hack and slash top-down shooter. As an agent specializing in exorcism, you are tasked to hunt monsters of the supernatural in a dark, ominous, and randomly generated atmosphere full of undead, terrifying and demonic nightmares.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, DirectX compatible 128MB graphics card, 51 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
106 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 66 percent. On the same math Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot ($4.99, scores 49) and Army of Ruin ($7.99, scores 68) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Larva Mortus
Critics scored it 64. Players sit 12 points higher at 76 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 252 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 49 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
17% start to 16% 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
What players say
This is a small top down shooter that is a horror based dungeon crawler. It's actually pretty good for a small independent project like this. It's not super polished, but it's not overwhelmingly amateur either. The game does have some bugs here and there, and one that can really hurt your achievement hunting, so be careful of that. The game has a mix of it's normal campaign missions, as well as randomly generated...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Great little game from 2009, recommend for sure but I took long way of grinding as per the hours I played but got to the point it was almost impossible to grind I think from around the 4million point mark so then just smashed out the main story which was actually really good to me. Very happy I brought this and played it, it reminds me of old flash games, this game is like 50 mb or something so come on people who...
A top-down horror shooter with very arcade-like action; you'd think it would be twin stick but it's not. The game is mission-based and you select from either story or randomly generated missions on a world map. Missions take place in a small, NES Zelda-style dungeon with an objective. Random missions give you a chance to level up, find artifacts and better weapons before progressing with the story. Upon leveling...
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Cite this score
Larva Mortus scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/11340/larva-mortusReviews 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.