Spells & Secrets
Skip · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $2.49.
- Length
- 11h 16.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.23/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 334 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 90% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
In this rogue-lite adventure, you free the Academy of Greifenstein from magical creatures by using your spells creatively. Explore this modern magical world alone or in local co-op mode with friends and family, customize your character, solve mysteries, and find powerful artifacts.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 28 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 65 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today's $2.49 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Coffee Caravan ($7.19, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Ratty Catty ($4.49, scores 15).
More about Spells & Secrets
This site sampled 260 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 11 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
91% 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
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 15:51 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
this was exactly the kind of magical chaos i needed!! i loved running around the academy, learning spells and experimenting with them to solve puzzles and deal with all kinds of strange situations. the mix of exploration, magic and roguelite elements makes every run feel a little different and the ability to combine spells in creative ways is definitely my favorite part. its cute, funny and surprisingly addictive...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Think of it like Hades. You do a run and gather a load of stuff until you die and then lose it all, start again, but being able to upgrade your spells and stuff and get stronger each go. It's a fun game solo, however I specifically purchased 2 copies of this game because a) I wanted my husband to play with me because b) the reviews hyped that co op was so much more fun. Scrap that. You can't play co op on PC. My...
The game isn't bad - and fine for the low sale price you can pick it up. It has some small design issues like most spells and artifact pickups being kind of useless, at best only for solving puzzles - clearly the intention is to exploit enemy weaknesses, but often it's better to just kill them. The bosses are extremely dull and in general, enemies are too bullet spongey - but maybe the game is balanced for coop, I...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Spells & Secrets scores 36/100 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/1518220/spells-secretsReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.