The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story™

The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story™

Fair · Roguelike · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
8.8h
Value
$3.41/hr
Reviews
84% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
8.8h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
14.6h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.41
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$29.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
84%
2,763 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
78
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1 GB / Intel Iris Plus / AMD HD 6770, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

From Digital Sun, creators of Moonlighter, The Mageseeker is an action RPG in the League of Legends universe. Play as Sylas, a mage now freed from years in captivity. Wield the chains that once bound you and liberate Demacia from the Mageseekers' tyranny.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 83% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$3.41/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length8.8 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds11 of 720 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was June 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 15 in the 4 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 40 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Heroes of Hammerwatch ($14.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats The Slormancer ($19.99, scores 49).

11 of the 720 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 276 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

97% start to 25% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 22:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I love league of legends, and I'm a League of Legends lore enthusiast. I have read almost all there is to read - I know every story, every animated short, and I've even read some of the physical books. But I cannot recommend Mageseeker. I like that it is accurate to a lot of the source material. I like that they actually get Sylas right - he's not a 'good guy'. He's a bad guy doing a good thing for a good cause...
LittleMissHiveMindNot recommendedafter 7.9hAug 2026Read on Steam
I was so excited to be able to play through an extension of the League universe, but somehow this game managed to fumble being given League lore. If you play League, like League lore, or like having fun-please go and buy Silksong or Bastion or whatever and then go back and read the old Judgement volumes that Riot Games used to put out. I don't know if they were given excruciatingly tiny, cage-like restraints on what...
52pickupNot recommendedafter 12hAug 2026Read on Steam
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME FULL PRICE I had this game on my wishlist for years. I got it for 7.49€ of disappointment. Art looks nice, boss fights (so far) have interesting mechanics and the story is compelling... However [*] my controller gets randomly disconnected without any apparent reason. This is unacceptable. I spent almost 200 hours on Hades 2 with the same controller without any issue. [*] for 30€ I would like to...
Fulio BagginzNot recommendedafter 3.9hJun 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story™ scores 59/100 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/1457080/the-mageseeker-a-league-of-legends-story
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Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+6
Critics
78
Players
84
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 2,763 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDigital Sun
PublisherRiot Forge
GenreRoguelike
Released2023
Achievements53