Idle Slayer
Fair · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 54h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
Start from nothing and grow into a legendary Slayer. Explore countless dimensions, collect souls, unlock powerful upgrades, craft powerful gear, defeat epic bosses, and enjoy a deep idle RPG with active and offline progression.
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
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Mr.Mine (free, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Idle Cave Miner (free, scores 51).
Steam's global achievement data puts 36 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
54 hours to finish it, 644 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 12 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
81% start to 36% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Not a fan of the pacing of this game. Certain long grinds yielding terrible buffs like ''here's a 5% coin buff after your week long grind), not always obvious where to go, lots of stalling and confusion. Too many quests that cost RIDICULOUS amounts, like astral keys, for such low buffs. Quests often never hint at their rewards, but almost always they're garbage. Stagnates very quickly. Seasonal events could be more...
Don't be fooled by the amount of hours played, I'm just a dumb completionist. The game is complete garbage and I'd get a refund if I hadn't already spent a bit too much time in it. It attempts to be both and idle and an incremental game, but makes both feel awful. It's someone learning gamedev and sticking every new thing they learn onto it. Stay away.
I thought *Idle Slayer* was just going to be another simple idle game where you click a few buttons, watch numbers go up, and forget about it. I was wrong. At first, it looks incredibly simple. You run through a pixel-art world, collect coins, defeat enemies, and buy upgrades. Then you realize you've been playing for three hours. The game does something surprisingly clever with the idea of an idle game. You can...
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Cite this score
Idle Slayer scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1353300/idle-slayerReviews 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 19.
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