Death of the Reprobate

Death of the Reprobate

Worth it · Narrative · 2024

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $12.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.42.

Length
2.6h 3.4h to 100%
Value
$5.00/hr
Reviews
96% of 731 positive
It needs 58% off ($5.42) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.42 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

Raising the score
Reviews96% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 95% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$5.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 323 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Explore a world built from the luscious landscapes, turbulent townscapes and preposterous portraits of real Renaissance paintings. Death of the Reprobate is a Rabelaisian adventure game from the creator of Four Last Things and The Procession to Calvary.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

19 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $5.42, the price it would take to be a BANGER.

On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Four Last Things ($9.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Randal's Monday ($1.99, scores 47).

More about Death of the Reprobate

81 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

None of the 323 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

93% start to 28% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 08:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I really enjoyed the meta-jokes about the game genre. It was also a fun version of such games in and of itself. the humor is really silly. extra fun for art nerds because you can recognize some of the paintings with a... more modern description of the painting content I like to imagine that in the future, when they've blurred which time periods our slang came from, all people from the 2020s are depicted as talking...
dozierstRecommendedafter 2.7hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
There's just something about the maximum cultural seriousness oozing from the paintings combined with the absurdist ramblings of a mad man that does it for me. I laughed out loud on several occassions and was impressed with the unwavering creativity of all three games. Well done!
PretzlRecommendedafter 3.9hAug 2026Read on Steam
Death of the Reprobate is (as of writing this) the last in a trio of highly stylized and deeply humorous point-n-click adventure games that genuinely make me wish I continued studying fine art in college. Like the other games in it's series I both think these games are amazing and yet... too good for the genre of game they're set in (but that's a complicated conversation). I wish nothing less than the best for the...
Ryder The ReaperRecommendedafter 2.7hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Death of the Reprobate scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1739900/death-of-the-reprobate
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Reviews 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.

Critics vs players+15
Critics81
Players96
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 731 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperJoe Richardson
PublisherAkupara Games
GenreNarrative
Released2024
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements20