Archvale
Worth it · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 9.7h
- Value
- $1.55/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT, 512 MB or AMD Radeon HD 7570, 1 GB. Windows only.
Take up your weapon in this RPG bullet-hell world and embark on a journey to right wrongs from long ago. Only you can defeat the evil forces of the Undying guardians and reunite the world with the fabled Archvale.
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
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. It has been discounted 31 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Full Metal Furies ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Hero Siege ($7.99, scores 19).
Of the 524 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 129 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
91% start to 23% 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
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 02:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Incredibly unbalanced. There is no joy in playing hard mode whatsoever. There is no invincibility window after being hit allowing you to die faster than you can even react when the screen is filled with projectiles. Having a limited number of dodges makes this even more annoying. Enemies do too much damage and/or player does not have enough health/defense. Using a health flask takes way too long since you always...
Poorly balanced in terms of damage numbers to and from the player, i-frames, and gameplay that felt more frustrating than difficult (especially with constantly getting stuck on walls going a pixel or two in or out). A game that could be really good if it were balanced better.
Кайфовая булетхел-адвенчура, пиксель-арт шикарный, музыка тоже неплохая, если не играть на максимальной то сложность вполне адекватная (постоянно умирать за полсекунды от трёх подряд летящих снарядов, при этом играя за класс который по идее должен танчить больше других, было не в кайф)
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Archvale scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1296360/archvaleReviews 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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