Hellslave
Fair · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $1.98/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 6670, GeForce GTX 200 series with at least 1GB, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Hellslave is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler where you make a pact with the Devil to fight back a demon invasion. Customize your character with powerful demonic abilities, explore a cursed world, and battle nightmarish enemies to save humanity if you can resist the darkness.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in December 2024. 44 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Legend of Keepers: Prologue (free, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos ($12.99, scores 24).
This site sampled 426 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026.
10.1 hours to finish it, 22 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
27% start to 4% 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
26 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 10:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
What a pleasant surprise. The gameplay loop is surprisingly addictive, the art design is striking, and it's absolutely whetted my appetite for the new sequel. (There are some rough edges: French randomly appears at times; controller support is a little wonky, but still workable; and towards the end, there wasn't much incentive to change up my tactics. Once I'd figured out my rotation of skills, I pretty much plowed...
I expected a more traditional dungeon crawler, and got positively surprised that it's more than just that. The story is rather basic and not hard to understand, giving you the option what "class" you want to go with, and then follow how everything unfolds within quests and areas to explore. You can find some more lore-related items which is fine to add to the game's story. And the music's doing a fine job to give...
The gameplay is easy to learn, and the core loop is well designed. At several points, I got stuck on the narrative puzzles because I was more focused on the mechanics than on figuring out what I was supposed to do, but overall, the game made sense. The loop is repetitive without becoming boring, and the story is interesting and engaging, with a pleasant and beautiful aesthetic. The game can be completed relatively...
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Cite this score
Hellslave scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1608450/hellslaveReviews 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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