Hunt the Night
Skip · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $19.99. Fair at $8.50, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2023 (lowest $9.99, Jun 2026).
- Length
- 9.4h 11.9h to 100%
- Value
- $2.13/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 519 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.50 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
Hunt the Night is a retro-style action-RPG that blends fast, skillful combat with dark fantasy lore. Play as Vesper, a member of the Stalkers, and traverse the ruined world of Medhram on a mission to save humanity from a deadly cycle of annihilation.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce GT 710, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 29 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FIGHT KNIGHT ($19.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition ($5.99, scores 31).
More about Hunt the Night
None of the 363 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026.
The drop-off
68% start to 5% 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
What players say
I really wanted to be able to recommend this game. The pixel art is great, the environments are gorgeous (if a bit too busy at times), and the story is good enough. I was interested in uncovering the story and lore of the world, even if the dialogue was a bit rough at times. Most of my complaints about the game were minor and not unexpected with a dev team's early/first work. Until about 2/3s of the way into the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
i like this game but unfortunately had to drop it. The world is designed in such a way that you typically have to backtrack too much, while going through multiple combat scenarios, to get to where you died. The combat isn't even particularly hard, but the game has the tendency to spring combat rooms on you with no warning, with no regard for your healing supplies or the nearest checkpoint.
Not perfect, but enjoyable enough. Great visuals, great art, good sound design, enough enemy variety, ambition in the boss fights (though several of them suffer from heavy design issues), decent lore, good combat, semi-decent build options (you have several spells and runes and weapons at your disposal, but you can only equip one of each. this severely limits any "build" you'd like to play. the lack of map could be...
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Cite this score
Hunt the Night scores 41/100 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/1649740/hunt-the-nightReviews 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.