Crystarise
Skip · Roguelike · 2023 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $15.99.
- Length
- 20h
- Value
- $0.80/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 256 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $12.79 (20% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
Explore a vast world, create your own sky island, the island gives the girl the power. An open world-action RPG that you create more and more and become stronger and stronger.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 15 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Death Must Die ($6.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Hyper Light Breaker ($29.99, scores 0).
More about Crystarise
3 of the 248 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to June 2026.
The drop-off
70% start to 6% 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
At present, Crystarise consists of 5 minutes of gameplay stretched over 10 or so hours of grind. It doesn't evolve past gathering things and expanding the island. The main progress bottleneck for most players will be the Magenta enemies and their biomes. Reducing damage from cold and heat requires 40 levels of resistances per 1 damage, and the enemies require at least 100 combined levels of Sword Attack / Slayer to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Have you ever wanted to play as a cute anime girl who walks around and gathers materials to decorate her own floating island for a bunch of cute creature slaves which can sit around on benchs in your home around a campfire? Now you can! (´・ᴥ・`) 𐙚 ‧₊˚ ⋅
Abandoned, and the devs are still telling people to buy the game, eventhough it hasn't gotten an update in 8months
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Crystarise scores 38/100 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/1748750/crystariseReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.