Aeterna Noctis
Skip · Action · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 39, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 31.4h
- Value
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 970 | AMD RX 570, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Aeterna Noctis is a challenging metroidvania that majestically combines action, exploration and adventure. With 2 game modes and difficulty based on action or the exclusive Noctis mode where a level of difficulty is added in precision platforming never seen in the metroidvania genre.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 48 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 29 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, La-Mulana 2 ($24.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats DEVIATOR ($4.19, scores 19).
This site sampled 693 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 149 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
87% start to <1% 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
15 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 10:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game absolutely deserves a positive review. I have played around 60 hours and completed just above 50% of the game in noctis mode and I am still reading guides and watching playthroughs. First of all the visuals are stunning, a masterpiece in this aspect and I have not seen another game similar to this. The music is amazing with different music for each of the biomes and combined with the visuals the overall...
Great Platformer, a bit tough figuring out what to do really opens up in the second half with a few powers you receive. Combat isn't very tough most challenge is from platforming.
Quite possibly the most boring and annoying game I've ever played. After a certain point, I felt like I was exclusively going on tangent after tangent without any sense of real progress being made. Sunk cost fallacy got me good with this one
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Aeterna Noctis scores 39/100 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/1517970/aeterna-noctisReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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