LOST EPIC

LOST EPIC

Skip · RPG · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 35, under the fair line, at $17.99.

Length
9.3h 44.6h to 100%
Value
$1.93/hr
Reviews
72% of 1,136 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

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

Raising the score
Replayability~45h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 9.3h main story
Engagement17% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.93/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews72% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 602 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

LOST EPIC is a 2D side-scrolling action RPG about a war between gods and humanity. The player becomes the deity-defying knight, God Slayer, and explores the world known as Sanctum to bring the Pantheon of Six to their knees.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 750 Ti, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 32 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 39 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Salt and Sanctuary ($17.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Salt and Sacrifice ($19.99, scores 9).

More about LOST EPIC

Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 602 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to October 2026. In its first 30 days on sale, 2 of 104 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 218 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.

9.3 hours to finish it, 45 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.8 times the campaign.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

97% start to 17% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

What players say

The endgame is a giant hp sponge, both mob and boss variety are minimal (every boss except 3 final ones have three variations (reskins) that count as separate bosses, with the enemies having from 5 to 8 reskins for each area). the resource grinding is not fun, just repetitive, and there are very view qol features to help with 100% completing the game. Also, it is impossible to get ending D if you played the game too...
DeOwlNot recommendedafter 31hJan 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
unfortunately i cannot recommend this game to anyone who is looking for another astlibra or salt and sanctuary. first and foremost, this game has 4 ending and you will be punished for doing too much quest since half of the ending requires your to ignore the quest entirely, and assuming if you are playing this game with no knowledge of that condition, you will pretty much require you to clear the game again with the...
GenesisNot recommendedafter 11hJan 2026Read on Steam
looks great, feels great. smooth controls, rebindable buttons, and no contact damage!
FelixRecommendedafter 53hJan 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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LOST EPIC scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1426490/lost-epic
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Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperOne or Eight
PublisherOne or Eight
GenreRPG
Released2022
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements40