The Axis Unseen
Skip · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 19h
- Value
- $0.26/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 363 positive
Full price
Today
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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
A heavy metal horror game where you hunt monsters from folklore in an open world. Discover enhanced sense powers, elemental arrows, magic and journals from people who came before you. Almost all of the UI exists in the world itself. Created by one of the developers of Skyrim and Fallout.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB VRAM GeForce GTX 2080/Radeon VII, 24 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 19 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $4.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Atomic Heart ($11.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Folklore Hunter ($17.99, scores 35).
More about The Axis Unseen
This site sampled 307 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,422 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 192 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 101 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
75% start to <1% 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
There's too little to do. Clearly this is a passion project and it's a shame this dev couldn't get more people on board to really put something together. The enemy animations are highly limited and clunky, and the terrain's collision is not mapped well, or thoroughly, so the enemies not only get stuck all the time on assets but also grid lock, having to go around imaginary objects as they pathfind around terrain...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The writing and presentation was so bad that I was initially quite endeared to the game, assuming a teenager had made it. After looking up the creator, I came to the conclusion that he's really old enough to know better.
Pretty great game! It doesn't hold your hand so you really have to like exploring for this to be worth it for you. I was interested in the lore and the monster designs are pretty great!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Axis Unseen scores 37/100 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/1807810/the-axis-unseenReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.