ASTLIBRA Revision
BANGER · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 39.2h
- Value
- $0.64/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Confront time and fate in the 2D action RPG, Astlibra Revision. Explore meticulously crafted worlds, fight brutal boss battles, and upgrade your skills to take down enemies lurking around every corner.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $17.49, set in February 2026. 34 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Death's Gambit: Afterlife ($9.99, scores 60) and Eastern Exorcist ($17.99, scores 54).
$50.27 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $24.99.
Steam's global achievement data says about 14 percent of players ever finish it. On a 39.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 574 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
4 years after release it still had 742 people in it at once.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
78% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
742 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
If this game was released around the time that its initial development began, it would probably be amongst the most celebrated JRPGs of all time. This game was a 15-16 year old passion project, hence why you may assume it looks outdated (and why I think it lacks popularity). For me, this is an extremely fluid, nostalgic, beautifully fleshed out experience. 10/10 game thus far. I'll probably add to this review the...
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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ASTLIBRA Revision scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1718570/astlibra-revisionThe 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 15, price as of Sep 23.
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