Castlevania Advance Collection
Worth it · Action · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 22.2h
- Value
- $0.27/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Count Dracula is once more back from the dead... Join the fight against Evil in the Castlevania Advance Collection, a compilation of timeless action-exploration masterpieces!
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
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. It has been discounted 33 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Castlevania Dominus Collection ($12.49, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats La-Mulana 2 ($24.99, scores 71).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 22.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 485 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 386 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 22.2 hours. Doing everything runs 46, 2.1 times as long.
The drop-off
45% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Finished My First Castlevania circle of moon, Keep forgetting that these GBA Games be short as hell, The Pixel Work is pretty nice, I did not like the Zombie Dragon Boss fight due to having to fight Both Heads at the same time and be equally vulnerable, The Final Boss Was kinda Dragging a Bit in the 2nd Phase with attacking the Bats and Eye ball, as Metroidvania is holds up pretty and was mostly able to read the map...
Aria of Sorrow definitely better than sex. Harmony of Dissonance slightly better than sex. No opinion on Circle of the Moon.
Circle of The Moon is probably my favorite Castlevania on the GBA due to this collection. It's way better than it seems, especially if you're one to get turned off by the slower "clunkiness" at the start. It's closer to a classicvania while maintaining the spirt of a Metroidvania with one of the most unique castle systems in the series. Harmony of Dissonance is really just SOTN on the go. It feels like a direct...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Castlevania Advance Collection scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1552550/castlevania-advance-collectionReviews 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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