Knock on the Coffin Lid
Fair · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.2h
- Value
- $2.45/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Graphics card with DX10, 13 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Investigate your own death, find ways to break free from a time loop, choose a hero who will ascend to the throne and rule the Northern gate! The fates of whole nations of the land of Midian depend on your choices.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was April 2020. Its cuts run 21 percent off as a rule. There have been 35 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 42 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, 9 Kings ($9.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Across the Obelisk ($19.99, scores 56).
Of the 766 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 168 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 10.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
83% start to <1% finishA 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
Players
13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 06:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Remarkable polished game. Have to be made by people that love games. Thumbs up from me.
If you like deck builders, highly recommended. You'll (on average) get a good 40 or so hours out of what's offered here. There is a learning curve with how the game functions, as well as certain design decisions that put off a lot of negative reviewers around the 10-40ish hour mark in regards to final bosses mechanics. Please keep that in mind when trialing the game that this is a ROGUELIKE card game. You cannot win...
I really wanted to like this game because I liked the premise behind it (getting woken up in a coffin to go adventuring). I was looking forward to playing the game as Vanadis. Bear in mind I have 1 hour and 22 minutes of playtime when writing this review, playing on "Normal" difficulty, so my experience of the game so far is fairly limited; I have not yet fought a boss battle. When in battle you MUST click the End...
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Cite this score
Knock on the Coffin Lid scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1232580/knock-on-the-coffin-lidReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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