V Rising
Worth it · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $34.99.
- Length
- 50.9h
- Value
- $0.69/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti (Maxwell or newer), 2 GB or AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB, 19 GB of storage. Windows only.
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $15.74, set in December 2025. 37 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Valheim ($29.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats ATLAS ($29.99, scores 2).
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 3,817 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
137,059 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
62% start to 7% 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
11.0K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
One of my favorite games of all time. Amazing solo. Fantastic with friends. Enemies are diverse, engaging, and rewarding to defeat. Victory feels earned. The grind to unlock and upgrade gear and abilities is satisfying. Building your vampiric lair is sublime. The breadth of customization including server configs, mods, wipes, etc. make it extremely replayable. 10/10
Graphics: 10/10 (Atmospheric gothic art style and lighting) Combat: 10/10 (Fast-paced, responsive WASD ARPG mechanics) Base Building: 10/10 (Detailed multi-floor castle creation) Boss Fights: 10/10 (Each V Blood boss has unique mechanics) Easily the best survival craft game I've played on Steam. The daylight mechanic keeps you on edge, and the progression loop is addictive from start to endgame. I love it so much...
I've played this game on and off since before release and I have to say, it just keeps drawing me back in. Combat is challenging and fun. Building is simple but fulfilling. Rng of gotta catch them all is satisfied. Multitude of server settings to let you play your way. Overall extremely enjoyed. (also bought all the dlc which is cosmetic but adds a lot of design freedom.)
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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V Rising scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1604030/v-risingThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 23.
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