Sons of Valhalla
Skip · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $4.00/hr
- Reviews
- 67% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti (1 GB) / AMD Radeon HD 6850 (1 GB), 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Sons of Valhalla is a roguelike strategy game set in the Viking Age. Build fortresses, gather warriors, and lay siege to enemy strongholds, engaging in personal combat as you raid and conquer across England.
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
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 25 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bellwright ($29.99, scores 47) beats it on value, while it beats Han Xiongnu Wars ($6.99, scores 5).
18 of the 578 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 206 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 18 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 145 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% 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
I only say yes because it seems like they are still making active updates and hotfixes. The game itself has a lot of potential. It integrates base building and rouge-like scaling which is a new concept for me. But the enemy NPCs bug out really easily which sometimes trivializes fights. The game also crashes fairly frequently. I played through the main campaign and despite the bugs and crashing, I was still compelled...
Do want to play Kingdom, but wanted more mechanics and control over individual units plus get into the fight yourself? Well have I got a game for you. There are a lot of upgrade paths to go down in the campaign (there are 3 modes) and a lot of different runes to suit different playstyles. Personally, the charge arrow was kind of where things got a lot easier. Boost your health, damage, and all of your secondary...
Honestly, game is decent until you face the bishop boss. That one is such an uninteresting slog...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Sons of Valhalla scores 15/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1409830/sons-of-valhallaReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 1.
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