ELDEN RING
Worth it · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $59.99, a BANGER if it drops to $57.75. Typically $35.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $1.00/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 1,160,941
- Critics
- 94 players 1 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 1% RPG
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $57.75 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 60.1h
- To 100%
- 136.2h 2.3x the story
- Achievements
- 42
Price and sales
- Sales
- 11 on record
- Typical cut
- 35% off
- Steam low
- $35.99 December 2023
- Sale every
- 97d last March 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 27,168 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
75% start to 16% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
11 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $57.75. The record reaches that level 11 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including DARK SOULS™ II ($39.99, scores 72) and DARK SOULS™ III ($59.99, scores 77).
More about ELDEN RING
10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 21,542 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 60.1 hours. Doing everything runs 136, 2.3 times as long.
1,160,941 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 227 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
After 100% completion for Elden Ring, I can proudly say that this is in my top ten games of all time. I just love how after a decade of perfecting Soulsborne games, Fromsoftware took everything they've learned over the years and made a certified masterpiece of an open world RPG. First of all, the game is awesome because of its dozens of bosses. It also gave an amazing chance to explore and just chill for hundreds of...
2 more reviews
Probably the best adventure game ever made and I hated every second of it - 10/10
600+ Hours In-Depth Review | Played Across PC & Console Rating: 10 / 10 Verdict: An absolute masterpiece worth every single cent at full price. I bought this game three separate times-digitally on PlayStation with the DLC ($80), as a physical disc, and again on Steam with the DLC ($80). That alone speaks for itself. Gameplay, Freedom, & Build Crafting The build variety is virtually limitless. Whether you run pure...
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About the game
THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1060 3 GB or AMD RADEON RX 580 4 GB, 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
ELDEN RING 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/1245620/elden-ringReviews 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 Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.