Returnal™
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$59.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$23.9960% off
- Cost per hour
- $3.14/hr
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 11,213
- Genre rank
- Top 41% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reviews, Reach
Watch this gameOne alert at $23.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 19.1h
- To 100%
- 63.8h 3.3x the story
- Achievements
- 38
Price and sales
- Sales
- 25 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $19.79 June 2026
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 29 now
- Recent reviews
- 77% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 53% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
94% start to 2% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
25 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 41 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Risk of Rain 2 ($24.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats ANVIL ($24.99, scores 8).
More about Returnal™
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 23 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 680 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 19.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 64, 3.3 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
PROS: - the core game loop is fun. CONS: - it's poorly optimized. - it doesn't fully support all the Dualsense features. I guess you do get HD rumble and Adaptive Triggers if you use it wired, but c'mon, I've seen indie games and emulators make better use of the Dualsense, even wireless; Mind you, a game PUBLISHED BY PLAYSTATION. Instead of buying this go grab Risk of Rain 2.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Tons of potential, but failed to stick the landing. Key roguelite elements missing from this apparently not so "roguelite". Story, movement, and combat are good, but the glaring lack of a proper meta-progression system in a loop based roguelike just completely ruins the whole experience. I think I'll stick to playing indies. Smaller teams are currently making much better games, and actually listen to us when we...
Over 2000h on Playstation, helpd 1000s and 1000s of players beat the game in Co-op. Now im here to do the same💪🥳👍
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
BREAK THE CYCLE Fight to survive as this award-winning third-person shooter brings Selene’s story to PC. Take on roguelike challenges. Engage enemies in bullet hell-fuelled clashes. Share your journey through Returnal™ with another player.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB) AMD Radeon RX 580 (8 GB), 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Returnal™ scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1649240/returnalReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.