Rogue
Worth it · Roguelike · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 9.8h 12h to 100%
- Value
- $0.31/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 514 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.
Minimum specs
Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 14 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 16 percent on value. It is cheaper than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rift Wizard ($14.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Sword of the Stars: The Pit ($9.99, scores 58).
More about Rogue
This site sampled 325 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 310 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 63 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 07:52 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I don't seem to be able to leave a comment on it so I'm gunna address the person with the wild username and negative vote in the reviews here and say this is my first time playing Rogue but this version's been great, and that they didn't add the QOL updates that user wanted simply because it's stated in the description on the store page, this is released as a very specific port of Rogue, and almost all those options...
2 more reviews
This can be a fun game to play while trying to go for a high score or see how far you can go into the dungeon. But actually trying to beat it is going to crush your spirit, snort it, and sneeze it back onto you. Its cheap so I cant say that experiencing an admittedly fun piece of gaming history isn't worth it. Just keep in mind actually trying to beat it is very luck based.
Rogue... bro, where tf do you even start with this one? This thing is basically gaming archaeology. Half the genres on Steam owe this game money. It's brutal, confusing, ugly, and about as welcoming as a brick to the face, as comfortable as a n64 controller. The graphics are letters, the controls are from another century, and the game has zero interest in explaining itself. You drink a mystery potion and either...
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Cite this score
Rogue scores 72/100 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/1443430/rogueReviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.