DemonCrawl

DemonCrawl

Skip · Roguelike · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 43, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
13.8h
Value
$1.09/hr
Reviews
77% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
13.8h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
77h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.09
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
77%
1,331 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2019

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

DemonCrawl is a puzzle roguelite that combines the addicting gameplay of Minesweeper with hundreds of unique items, stages, and abilities!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews77% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach150K+ 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$1.09/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length14 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 553 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was March 2020. It has been discounted 22 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 33 percent off, with about 9 weeks between sales.

It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Convoy ($14.99, scores 48) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).

Of the 553 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

HowLongToBeat players log 13.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 77, 5.6 times as much.

The drop-off

80% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

17 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 21:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I love this game, with more than 500 hours of play time. But do yourself a favour and DON'T BUY IT. It crashes ALL THE TIME, for no reason whatsoever. I'm not bitter, not at all.
red_mage_kingNot recommendedafter 571hAug 2026Read on Steam
I want to like this game more than I do. The appeal of roguelites hinges in variance and the items you acquire help you overcome the odds the game makes you face by either bridging a skill gap, i.e. making the core gameplay easier on their own or offering synergies, or by reducing the randomness of underlying game mechanics. Minesweeper in itself is a game of deduction in which you can correctly assign spaces on the...
Lizard SupremeNot recommendedafter 5.3hJul 2026Read on Steam
Insanely replayable. Every run feels different and the synergies can get really fun once a build starts coming together. The devs have recently been updating it again, so it's worth it. That said, the crashing is honestly very very bad. It crashes way more than it should and it's super annoying when you're in the middle (or the end) of a good run. But somehow I still keep playing it anyway because the game is just...
ApplecatRecommendedafter 417hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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DemonCrawl scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1141220/demoncrawl
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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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTherefore Games
PublisherTherefore Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2019
Achievements196