Berserk Boy
Skip · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$20.00Skip
On its price record
$14.78Fair
- Length
- 4.2h 12h to 100%
- Value
- $4.76/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 433 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.78 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 14 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
BERSERK BOY is a high speed action packed Platformer, with Metroidvania elements. Packed with vibrant and stylish pixel art. Go Berserk! as you change into different forms and use the power of Lightning, Fire, Ice, Air, and Earth to save the planet!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI Radeon X1300/NVidia GeForce 6600 GT or better. Windows only.
The value story
27 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. SANABI ($14.99, scores 84) and La-Mulana 2 ($24.99, scores 71) both outscore it.
More about Berserk Boy
Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 316 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026.
The main story runs 4.2 hours. Doing everything runs 12, 2.9 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
96% start to 10% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 04:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
At first I liked it. The movement felt good other than wall jumps. It was fast paced and the lightning dash to attack felt good. Halfway through the game it started to annoy me a bit. The last third of the game was a mix between really boring and frustrating. Combat was easy and all the enemies felt the same. The frustrating parts were needing to switch between all the powers to progress. You have to switch so much...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I forced myself to finish it. The game is repetitive, and almost all abilities rely on dashing. Basically, the game lacks variety and becomes boring because most mechanics feel the same. I cannot recommend this game. The main reason I bought it because I was hoping for a megaman clone.
So it's Mega man, right? I haven't played enough of Mega man to note the differences, but I really like the experience given here. The art style is charming and very 90's. As a 90's baby, that's enough to get me playing anything, but the movement and combat is very good. The first couple of larger boss encounters fell a little flat for me. I think the bosses are really hard when you first fight them, and then far...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Berserk Boy scores 46/100 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/1561340/berserk-boyReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.