Loop Hero
Worth it · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 28.6h
- Value
- $0.52/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 85% over the last 30 days against 93% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 7300 GT (512 MB), Radeon X1300 Pro (256 MB), 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was September 2025. Its cuts run 67 percent off as a rule. There have been 46 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 15 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Balatro ($14.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats The Last Spell ($24.99, scores 78).
Critics scored it 82. Players sit 11 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Players rate it 93 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 85 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 355 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 272 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 1,321 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
97% start to 4% rarestNo 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
348 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This should definitely be filed under "incremental," so if you have the "number go up" mindset, you'll have a great time with this game. Conversely, if you hate that kind of genre, you won't like this. It's really that simple. The game isn't deep, it's a bit of meta-management to make number go up bigerer and that's it. I personally loved it - twice.
I am going to start by stating that I actually really like this game. What I have do is air a grievance though. This game hasn't been updated in over 3 years at this point, and it has things that were never implemented but were clearly meant to slot in. Either take out the parts that are never going to get added in (Belt and Gloves I believe) or finally put them in. I would also gladly pay for a full content DLC at...
Not my cup of tea, but it's well made and has a lot of heart. It was like catnip to my wife. Regardless, good mechanics, good design. and a good recommendation.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Loop Hero scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1282730/loop-heroThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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