Neophyte
Worth it · Roguelike · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $1.50/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 681 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
- 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
A mini topdown action roguelike with chaotic spell-slinging hack-n-slash combat. Collect spells, choose perks and discover powerful synergies to become an unstoppable monster-slaying wizard.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000, 123 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was August 2022. In 4 years of price history it has never once been discounted.
Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Until You Fall ($24.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Be My Horde ($9.99, scores 58).
More about Neophyte
This site sampled 364 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 186 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
49% 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
So, a lil overview at first. I bought this game when it first released. I'd say even in that state, that the game was fully playable, albeit a bit short, and lacking in some content, but it was still a fine experience. I don't even remember if the game was early access at first, can a game even do that? Enter early access later? Probably not, anyway. The point I'm trying to make is that the dev added some content...
1 more review
Please don't listen to some of these negative reviews. Yes the dev took it out of early access because he could not continue to develop it, but to call it "abandonware" is ridiculous. For under $5, you have a solid arcade style game you can pick up and play with lots of different spells and passives. There are also scaling difficulties to it, enemy variants and 3 playable characters that are fun in their own ways...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Neophyte scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1409530/neophyteReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.