El Shaddai ASCENSION OF THE METATRON HD Remaster
Skip · Action · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$29.99Skip
On its price record
$20.35Fair
- Length
- 8.5h 14.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.53/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 517 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $20.35 or less.
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
El Shaddai, originally released in 2011, is a unique third-person action adventure filled with a deeply artistic world-building, outstanding aesthetics and thrilling battles. Experience an incredible mix of 2D-like platformer action and a colorful 3D world in an exceptional setting.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4400, 8.2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
39 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 20 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 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 20 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LIZARDS MUST DIE ($1.19, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Raji: An Ancient Epic ($24.99, scores 42).
More about El Shaddai ASCENSION OF THE METATRON HD Remaster
None of the 373 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 114 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
85% 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
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 17:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Still Beautiful, Still Kind of Bad I'm only leaving a positive review because the game called me "Best Player" in the credits. I've been having a hard time of it, and flattery will get you everywhere with me. El Shaddai is a creative, psychedelic, ambitious and visually gorgeous 7th gen disappointment, that balances cool ideas with ass ideas in about equal measure. Based on a non-canonical (well, unless you're a...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I bought this game on ps3 in like 2015 or 2016 from a gamestop for 5 bucks. Changed my life. had to sell my copy to pay rent, very glad it's been brought to modern platforms.
The developers wated to achieve something and thats for sure. But to my honest opinion they failed miserably to do so. The graphics, theme and the design is a gold don't get me wrong, but thats about it. Plot is so vague it not only does not engage you in it but straight up bore and confuse you to death. Gameplay is cluncky and really simple so after an hour or so you already know what you will do for the next...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
El Shaddai ASCENSION OF THE METATRON HD Remaster scores 45/100 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/1581040/el-shaddai-ascension-of-the-metatron-hd-remasterReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.