F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
Fair · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $15.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.5h
- Value
- $1.28/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $4.79. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 36 in the 5 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SteamWorld Dig 2 ($2.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Owlboy ($19.99, scores 51).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to September 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.
The drop-off
95% start to 5% 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
11 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
I played this game to prepare for the upcoming Zoopunk, since I saw that game's trailer and was very intrigued. The Chinese saw the bad press furries got ever since RainFurrest, and made a competent Metroidvania to boost their image. I had a lot of fun and it started off very strong, and while the cracks were starting to show around the midpoint, it did its best to finish strong. Gameplay Alright. You navigate...
Well-designed and thought Metrovania type game. Had a lot of fun playing it. Story is decent and it is clear that the developers are very passionate about making the game. Reccommended for a good time. Number of hours is for me to achieve all achievements.
I was a bit wary about buying this based on some of the reviews I saw, but I'm glad I gave it a go. This was obviously a labour of love and I wasn't let down. If you're on the fence, maybe some of these points will help you decide whether to buy it or not: +1 Lots of gameplay. It kept going, but I especially liked that there were some areas you couldn't cheese and were only able to access secrets/get 100% map...
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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F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). 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-torchThe 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 19, price as of Sep 24.
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