F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
Fair · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$15.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.7970% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.28/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 7,312
- Critics
- 81 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 8% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.79 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.5h
- To 100%
- 20.2h 1.6x the story
- Achievements
- 43
Price and sales
- Sales
- 37 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $4.79 December 2025
- Sale every
- 52d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4 now
- Recent reviews
- 85% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 20% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
95% start to 5% 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
Across all 37 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SteamWorld Dig 2 ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats AWAKEN - Astral Blade ($19.99, scores 50).
More about F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 619 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 12.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 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
Very underrated game, enjoyed it a lot when I finished I started another run right away, the combos are really fun and great once you learn them well, I wish there was hard level which was weird to have only easy & normal, I highly recommend it
1 more review, not recommended
For anyone considering buying the game and planning to play with a controller: don't buy it until the developer team fixes the parry mechanism, as so many reviews have pointed out. The first portion of the game is okay, but when parry becomes a thing starting from the middle of the game, some of the fights are a torture. You encounter bosses that basically require the use of parry but if you are using a controller...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1330470/f-i-s-t-forged-in-shadow-torchReviews 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 Oct 16, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.