Lords of the Fallen
Skip · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Length
- 28.4h
- Value
- $1.06/hr
- Reviews
- 68% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, 6GBs VRAM | NVIDIA GTX-1060 | AMD Radeon RX 590, 45 GB of storage. Windows only.
A vast world awaits in the medieval, dark fantasy action-RPG, Lords of the Fallen. As a fabled Dark Crusader, embark on an epic quest to overthrow Adyr, the demon God. The final major update Version 2.5 is out now: features deadlier boss battles and all-new Veteran Mode.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.89, set in March 2026. 22 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Death's Door ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Lords Of The Fallen™ 2014 ($29.99, scores 3).
Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 4,559 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
28.4 hours to finish it, 91 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
3 years after release it still had 827 people in it at once.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
75% start to 22% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
827 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A truly souls-like experince, considering that the game itself can soft lock you, forcing you to use the Darksign item to fast travel to the last bonfire rested, losing all your souls in the process. Amazing. Parrying in this game feels like meh After 300 hours of Sekiro, nothing will come as close. Edit: After 20 hours I can see the game is worth the money, level design is incredible, it reminds me of Dark Souls...
Very good! Movement to me still feels like it could be improved animation/weight wise. Still, one of the best souls-like out there. love the art, atmosphere, lore, music AND when to use it, Some devs forget about that part that to me does so much for immersion. I love exploring souls games with nothing but the ambience of the area to listen, with the occasional boss/safe haven music. Looking Forward to LOTF 2!
Lords of the Copy Pasting Good Things First I believe every status effect and buff should have a proc. For example, hitting an enemy with a Holy/Smite effect actually smites them and deals damage, while the Fire buff procs Burning, etc. This is a really good change, and I hope to see other studios take advantage of this and include it in their games. Spells are incredible. Some of them are honestly broken with how...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Lords of the Fallen scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1501750/lords-of-the-fallenThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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