Swordship
Fair · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.3h
- Value
- $15.38/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 243 positive
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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
Swordship is a roguelike where dodging is your best weapon. Trick your enemies into killing each other, steal containers to upgrade your ship and unlock new ways to play. Dodge, dive, die, learn, repeat.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 1060 / Radeon 590, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 37 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 43 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 60 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Bounty of One ($6.99, scores 66) and Cursorblade ($4.99, scores 60) both outscore it.
More about Swordship
This site sampled 207 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 103 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.
At 1.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
34% start to 5% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Really really cool. I played on easy, to my surprise I finished a run through. I'm not very skilled but I felt like a stunt driver and with the electronic music felt like a rock star. Gonna give it a go again someday.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I'm not sure where they get roguelike from in the game's description because you collect many extra lives and you only start over when you lose them all, but aside from being mislabeled, it is still a very competent ARCADE-style game. It takes a while to get used to the controls and to have the enemies kill each other on purpose, but I like the idea of you being a pacifist who makes the enemies blow each other up...
TLDR - looks like it should be great but suffers from that artificial difficulty BS that plagues low content roguelikes to pad out the experience. I want to like this game, the art style and simple game play is all up my street, the game is incredibly short, 3 x 3 levels and then one final boss. The only variation besides colour is that the 1st set has no environmental risk, 2nd set you can crash into the sides and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Swordship scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1804270/swordshipReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.