Steelrising
Skip · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 15.2h 29.4h to 100%
- Value
- $0.20/hr
- Reviews
- 72% of 7,423 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
Paris, 1789. The French Revolution has been suppressed with bloodshed by Louis XVI and his merciless mechanical army. Aegis, a mysterious automaton masterpiece, must confront the king's army alone to save history in this challenging action-RPG.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, 6 GB AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT, 67 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 35 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 45 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin ($39.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($39.99, scores 0).
More about Steelrising
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 21 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 579 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 34 percent of the 719 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
58% start to 3% 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
What players say
A "double A" title that manage to recreate the tensions of the times (even if a bit manichean). The combat is heavy on the rythm if you want to play the "parry-riposte", but you can improvise to get out of tricky situations (or just bravely runaway). The "porcelaine" & metal design of the automats are great and very pretty, little to no notes. A great first "SoulsLike" to try!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A decent Souls-like overall. I wouldn't say this is a must-play though. It's definitely on the easier side, especially if you use a heavy weapon build, which can keep even the main bosses stunned for most of the fight. I did a run with lighter weapons, and the game became considerably more challenging. The story and setting are pretty interesting, although I found the ending somewhat underwhelming. 100% completion...
The story is the only thing that makes this stand out and it's kind of intriguing at first but then you realise that the dialogue in the cutscenes is abysmal. The writing is maybe the worst in any game I've played, it's not even so bad it's funny. The gameplay, maps and enemies all feel the same as other souls-likes, there's nothing that stands out about it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Steelrising scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1283400/steelrisingReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.