ANVIL

ANVIL

Skip · Roguelike · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 8, under the fair line, at $24.99.

Reviews
61% positive
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Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
61%
2,197 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7850 with 2 GB RAM, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.

Take on the role of a Vault Breaker in search of alien artifacts called “Vaults” and fight against monsters and powerful bosses. You can strengthen your Breakers to explore far-away galaxies that no one has ever reached!
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
Reviews61% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach150K+ 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
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 800 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

The lowest price on record is $17.49, set in September 2023. 10 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 9 weeks apart.

It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising ($19.99, scores 82) and Apocalypse Party ($9.99, scores 35) both outscore it.

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to May 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 293 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

21% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 00:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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ANVIL scores 8/100 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/1487390/anvil
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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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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperACTION SQUARE
PublisherACTION SQUARE
GenreRoguelike
Released2023
Achievements61