Alwa's Legacy
Worth it · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.41.
- Length
- 7.7h 13.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.44/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 648 positive
Full price
Today
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Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 55 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.41 at 81 percent off still sits 91 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Leap Year ($3.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats La-Mulana 2 ($24.99, scores 71).
More about Alwa's Legacy
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 32 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 361 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
54% start to 32% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
May not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's definitely THE cup of tea for me! When you look at it, there isn't anything exceptional. It has gorgeous pixel art with a beautiful looking world, but the combat is very minimal. The exploration and puzzles are fairly simple, but fun. The bosses are very easy. And the overall game is pretty short too. If someone makes a list of the best Metroidvania games, this probably...
2 more reviews
Well.. it sure is an improvement from the first title, Alwa's Awakening. There are more secrets, bigger dungeons, more fun puzzles and combat.. but.. one thing really screws this game over. And that's the upgraded bubble. I went through the game without upgrading the bubble. I first got lightning and then block upgrades. So in the endgame I couldn't do some of the puzzles to get the rest of the orbs without the...
A nice metroidvania with interesting achievements that makes you play the game in interesting ways. I don't really like having to choose which checkpoints to make teleporters and some of the achievements while interesting are just not as fun as in the first game. The previous game clearly led into this one but does it give you a satisfaction in story and world building as a reward for having played both? Not really.
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Cite this score
Alwa's Legacy scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1205900/alwa-s-legacyReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length 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.