An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire

An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire

Skip · RPG · 2022

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 24, under the fair line, at $5.99.

Length
16h 36.6h to 100%
Value
$0.37/hr
Reviews
68% of 210 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 6 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
Value$0.37/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews68% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 164 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

TRAPPED IN THE REALM OF DARKNESS
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

25 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut ($9.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Diablo® IV ($49.99, scores 15).

More about An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire

16 hours to finish it, 37 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 10:57 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I dont have a massive amount of hours on this reveiw as i played it on orignal hardware with the big box copy. Really decent dungeon crawler with some pretty tripper elder scrolls lore but all in all a really decent game if u can get past the jank
BekkeyRecommendedafter 2.8hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
I'll admit, I started this game expecting it to be an absolutely miserable experience due to the fact that I had heard nothing but terrible things about it, but I was shocked to discover that Battlespire was, for me, a very engaging and atmospheric game that was an absolute joy to play from start to finish. I think that a lot of the criticisms of it are very fair: the enemies at times do unreasonable amounts of...
OzymandiasRecommendedafter 15hAug 2026Read on Steam
5+ playthroughs and this game continues to surprise and show me new things; popping up in the mind over the years, its lore and contributions to the series is comically understated even now. The game is clunky, and broken in many ways, but never is it boring. The prequel to Oblivion, and the defining game of the Daedra.
GheartRecommendedafter 100hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire scores 24/100 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/1812420/an-elder-scrolls-legend-battlespire
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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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperBethesda Softworks
PublisherBethesda Softworks
GenreRPG
Released2022
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate