Skul: The Hero Slayer
Worth it · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9950% off
- Cost per hour
- $0.97/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 57,788
- Critics
- 80 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Roguelike
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 20.6h
- To 100%
- 66.9h 3.2x the story
- Finish
- 58% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 101
Price and sales
- Sales
- 61 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 January 2023
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 361 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 9% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
91% start to 4% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 61 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Cells ($24.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Rogue Legacy ($14.99, scores 79).
More about Skul: The Hero Slayer
Critics scored it 80. Players sit 13 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 2,021 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 20.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 67, 3.2 times as much.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
7.5/10 Swap heads, break skulls. Tons of build variety and a genuinely addictive loop.
1 more review
I got bored personally but When I wasn't bored, this game was amazing. might come back
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Skul: The Hero Slayer scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1147560/skul-the-hero-slayerReviews 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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.