Impaler Gold
Worth it · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.8h 8.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.78/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 594 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Impaler Gold is a fast-paced minimalistic arena shooter - now expanded and improved. Summon spikes to slay monsters, build barriers, and propel yourself into the air. Challenge yourself in this highly replayable rogue-lite shooter inspired by the classics.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics (Haswell), 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 41 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 19 percent on value. It is cheaper than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ziggurat 2 ($24.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Bloodshed ($12.99, scores 56).
More about Impaler Gold
Of the 336 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 206 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 9, 3.2 times as much.
At 2.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
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
What players say
I was browsing the Steam Summer Sale like I usually do when I came across Impaler Gold for a ridiculously cheap price. As someone who loves boomer shooters, I figured I'd give it a shot. Honestly, I wasn't expecting much-I thought it would be one of those games that's not bad, but nothing special because of how cheap it was. I couldn't have been more wrong. This game is so damn fun that I'm not even sure where to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
pretty fun game to sink a few hours into if you have nothing to do, great boomer shooter.
Yeah, I honestly felt a bit ripped off on this one. The main mechanic of growing spikes is fun, but it's way too strong. Free splash damage just kills everything. Slimes are supposed to stop this, but they don't. There isn't a lot to see or do here. The secondary mode feels more fleshed out than the main one. I respect the effort, but this just isn't worth the purchase.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Impaler Gold scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1573090/impaler-goldReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.