Elypse
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $1.49.
- Length
- 4.8h 13.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.31/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 405 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Embark upon a tragic tale and discover the ravaged world of Elypse! Fight your destiny in an arduous 2D adventure, story rich platformer, in a mesmerising and mysterious world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX960 / Radeon R9 380, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 34 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $1.49 at 85 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 26 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, AWAKEN - Astral Blade ($19.99, scores 50) beats it on value, while it beats Greak: Memories of Azur ($19.99, scores 38).
More about Elypse
Steam's global achievement data puts 49 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 296 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026.
The main story runs 4.8 hours. Doing everything runs 13, 2.8 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
87% start to 49% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Very linear and extremely short. Couldn't turn off screen shake or controller vibration something I do in every game I play. The most annoying part about this game is you get one shot by everything I don't care if there were many checkpoints it was still annoying. Got this game in an on sale bundle and this isn't the primary game I was looking towards, but none the less wouldn't recommend anyone going out of their...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I played this game and beat it after 670 deaths. Let's be clear: I didn't finish it because it was fun; I finished it out of pure spite and to spite its broken design. There is a massive difference between fair, rewarding difficulty found in masterpieces like Hollow Knight or ori where you actually learn from your mistakes and grow as a player-and lazy, artificial difficulty. Elypse relies on cheap "one-hit-kill"...
Elypse is a very challenging precise platformer. For me personally this is a 5/10. I won't play it again, but the challenge was fun. If you like pain go for it, especially if it is on sale. Hence the "recommendation" Pro: - Nice visuals in an atmospheric world - Fast paced gameplay, due to chained dashes. - Good soundtrack - Great cost to playtime ratio - especially if it is on sale. - Difficult, but fun final boss...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Elypse 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/1725340/elypseReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.