Soulstice
Skip · Action · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 16.8h
- Value
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX1060/RX5500XT, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Explore a dark world brimming with hidden mysteries, master a diverse combat system, and inhabit the dual forces of two sisters in a coming-of-age dark fantasy story with fast-paced action, vicious enemies, and spectacular boss fights.
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
March 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 43 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition ($5.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn ($39.99, scores 26).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 16.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 8 of the 730 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 318 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 16.8 hours. Doing everything runs 34, 2.0 times as long.
The drop-off
59% start to 10% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 16.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 21:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is a fantastic homage to Devil May Cry (primarily 1), including the fixed/preset camera system of those titles for better or worse. One could make a fair argument that there's a good reason why action games moved away from this style of camera, since it can mess with visibility during combat and platforming, BUT if you can personally deal with it in those games, you can handle it here. A big recommendation for...
the game has a lot of cool ideas, but sadly it feels like it fails to deliver. the player character is slow, clunky, janky, and inaccurate, the enemies are boring, the music is generic and uninteresting, the art style is neat but the characters faces are odd, the voice acting is ATROCIOUS, the game has performance issues for no reason, and the story 2 hours in hasnt been compelling at all. i picked the game up for...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Soulstice scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1602080/soulsticeReviews 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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