Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Fair · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $49.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 23.2h
- Value
- $2.15/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB VRAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 580, 52 GB of storage. Windows only.
Hunt ghosts as two memorable characters in a story-driven Action-RPG where your decisions carry dramatic consequences. Torn between honoring your oath to the living and saving your departed partner, how far will you go for love?
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was June 2026. It has been discounted 23 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Blade of Darkness ($14.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Bramble: The Mountain King ($29.99, scores 53).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 302 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 23.2 hours. Doing everything runs 62, 2.7 times as long.
The drop-off
67% 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
Players
104 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 22:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game really surprised me. I'm the type who loves the experience of a game more than the skill it demands. Which is not to say this game doesn't ask for skill, but more on that later. The game was larger than I was expecting, with more to do and see than other games of this kind. The two main characters of this game, Red and Antea, are incredibly well-written with rich backstories. Much of which is revealed as...
Love the choices-heavy story. Beautiful graphics. Not huge fan of leveling up characters. Seems clunky and not diverse enough 12 hours in.
i played the not very much but man why are they talking so much and almost no gameplay in it idk if this is me but i feel like it almost feels like i am watching a movie i want that they just tell the story in the gameplay but maybe that is just me
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden scores 55/100 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/1493640/banishers-ghosts-of-new-edenReviews 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 19, price as of Oct 1.
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