Loot River
Skip · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 18, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 3.9h 10.9h to 100%
- Value
- $6.41/hr
- Reviews
- 67% of 464 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 102 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
About the game
Explore procedurally generated labyrinths in this challenging, narrative-rich roguelike. Master deep combat. Slide blocks of ancient ruins. Defeat bestial abominations. Loot, level up, strategize, fight, die and wake up anew. Unlock the secrets of the Loot River. Immortality is a bittersweet gift.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GT 650M or higher, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 32 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 15 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BELOW ($24.99, scores 24) beats it on value, while it beats NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION ($7.49, scores 14).
More about Loot River
Of the 355 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 135 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 3.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 11, 2.8 times as much.
At 3.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
39% start to 2% 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
What players say
This is an extremely fun game with a steep learning curve. My recommendation is to go into the accessibility settings and turn on easy mode while you learn it. No matter how good you are at soulslikes, no matter how good you are at games in general, the controls, mechanics, and layout of this are different enough that you're going to need to learn it and you'll have a much easier time doing that if you enable easy...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Originally had this on gamepass but I enjoyed it enough to get a copy here! This was one of the first Rogue-Likes I've ever played and I really enjoyed it! Some good points; I thought the moving platform mechanic was unique and cool, The music and atmosphere is DARK and it goes hard, and the game lets you experiment well! I recommend this game! :)
Got this on sale liked the vibe and graphics. Started out fun exactly what I was expecting. Enjoyed it. Good balance of rpg, rouge lite, and light puzzle work, Really the only thing preventing me from recommending this game has been the ruined runs due to the game glitching. I have been on a run maybe 20-25 times at this point and I believe I am now chalking up my 5th restarted run from the game locking me down...
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Cite this score
Loot River scores 18/100 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/1494260/loot-riverReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.